A Ludicrous Relationship? A Conversation between Anthropology and Game Studies
Editor’s Note: This is a co-authored piece written by Spencer Ruelos and Amanda Cullen, both PhD students in the Informatics department at …
Ethnographic Designs for Buen Vivir: Fieldnotes from Nicaragua
Co-Authored by Alex Nading, Josh Fisher, and Chantelle Falconer What does it mean to find value in urban ecologies? This question sparked …
Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field, by Luisa Enria
2017 They say they can’t tell if I have malaria or not, maybe it’s something else. “Just lie down, try the drip, …
Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Gabriele de Seta, contributing the final post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and …
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson – This Anthro Life
Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthropology fit …
A Digital Bermuda Triangle: The Perils of Doing Ethnography on Darknet Drug Markets
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Alexia Maddox, contributing the first post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin …
Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Museum Folklore and Ethnology
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took …
Anthropology and the Rashomon Effect
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and …
Review of Richard S. Newman’s “Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present”
Newman’s activists press for environmental change imbedded with critiques of capitalism and industrialization, racial injustice, and its global implications. This view distorts …
How we discovered pollution-poisoned crustaceans in the Mariana Trench
A trench amphipod, Hirondellea gigas, from the deepest place on Earth: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,890m). Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University, …
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition! New Book Discount!
Edited by two former SAFN presidents and containing articles by many SAFN members, the new three volume set “Research Methods for Anthropological …
When Deep Time Becomes Shallow: Knowing Nuclear Waste Risk Ethnographically
When reflecting on these intertwined day-to-day, multi-decade, centurial, and multi-millennial horizons of nuclear waste risk all at the same time, a different …
The creation of a “lessons learned place” – Notes on doing research in the coal mine area of Tete, Mozambique
By Nikkie Wiegink, Utrecht University “More studies, more studies! Ok, it is necessary to do those studies, but to what end?!” Carlos …
Some Drawing Exercises, or “Etudes”
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method, by discussing how drawing is integral to seeing, encourages readers to consider drawing as …
Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers
By Sabine Luning, Leiden University My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the …
Ethnographic Refusal: A How to Guide
Refusal is a method whereby researchers and research participants together decide not to make particular information available for use within the academy. …
Call for Proposals: Research Methods
What Research Methods Are You Using This Summer? This summer, Anthropology News would like to hear about the creative or innovative methods …
Review: Teaching Food and Culture
Teaching Food and Culture. Edited by Candice Lowe Swift and Richard Wilk. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015. 209 pp. …
Taking Stock
In this post for The Person in the (Big) Data edition of EM, we hear from Giorgia Aiello @giorgishka who demonstrates the ways in …
Democratic Reflection: Evaluating Real-Time Citizen Responses to Media Content
What has always impressed me about this next method for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ series is the way in which …
Algorithmic Intelligence? Reconstructing Citizenship through Digital Methods
In the next post for ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ edition, Chris Birchall @birchallchris talks us through a variety of methods – big, small …
Thinking with selfies
Kath Albury @KathAlbury continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ by talking about her research into young people and …
Bibliography on Action-Based Research Methods
As researchers, we often want to make material and social changes through our work. Regardless of our institutional affiliations and disciplines, there …
Trace ethnography: a retrospective
Stuart Geiger @staeiou continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ with a reflection on his practice of ‘trace ethnography’ …