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Sonic Ethnography as Method and in Practice

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Walter S Gershon


Urban Students, Sounds and Making Sense of Science In the winter of 2009 I began working in four classrooms across…More

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Swirling Patterns of the Wave. Photo courtesy Frank Kovalchek

Mixed Methods Should Be a Valued Practice in Anthropology

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Thomas S Weisner


Methods are systematic, socially agreed upon ways to represent the world. Mixed methods integrate qualitative and quantitative evidence through intentional…More

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Four generations

A Family Portrait Simon is a thoughtful, well spoken, 34-year-old secondary school science and math teacher. He is uncommon in…More

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Water bins. Photo courtesy Jamie Harmon

Moral Engagement and Social Responsibility in the Public Realm

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Melissa Rinehart


The number of natural disasters that have occurred since Haiti’s devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010 is bewildering. Victims of…More

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Coming to Terms with Networked Anthropology

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Samuel Gerald Collins
Matthew Slover Durington


It’s happening on your campus now—students in your classes are uploading media about their varied ethnographic projects. Sometimes these photos,…More

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Chinese and Taiwanese Immigrant Family Educational Experiences

Toward a thorough Cultural Analysis of their College Preparation Process Studies of racial and ethnic disparities in K-12 education indicate…More

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Methods and Concepts at Work

Methods and Concepts at Work

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Nancy Anne Konvalinka
Elena Hernández Corrochano


Generation and Caregiving in “Late-Forming Families” External conditions and deep-seated ideas about the place of family formation in the life…More

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The Qualitative, the Quantitative and the Creative

The Qualitative, the Quantitative and the Creative

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Allison Mickel


My sixth grade science teacher, Mrs Fiore, had curly brown hair. She used blue and red markers on an ELMO-brand…More

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All Our Omitted Kin

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Riché Daniel Barnes


In Montreal, at the 110th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Karla Slocum, associate professor of anthropology at UNC Chapel…More

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Simona, 10 yrs, looking at her father. Photo courtesy Firouz Gaini

Family: The Map and the Terrain Through a classic anthropological lens, in the terminology of the formalistic mainly European “kinshipologists”…More

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