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ethnography
Thinking Without a Concept
How an artistic method can challenge and enrich our understandings of vision and knowledge.
The Anthropologist as Artist
A deeply interdisciplinary visual artist creates objects that are both art and ethnography. Her installations produce space for immersive, social forms of understanding.
Discussing Life and Labor with Kathleen Millar
Kathleen M. Millar talks about her award-winning ethnography of catadores in Jardim Gramacho, Brazil.
Documenting Traditional Knowledge through Participatory Research
Medical anthropologist Kristin Hedges partners with Maasai elders to document traditional medicine knowledge for community and youth education in Kenya.
Ethnographic Disruption in the Time of COVID-19
At its best, anthropology strives to understand the complexities of human existence and the ethical and moral dilemmas and choices that face us. The discipline that is invested in documenting societal change will have to formulate ways to work through an event that is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes.
Dear Graduate Student…
Fieldwork can be a contradictory and uncomfortable process. Some thoughts on shyness, relationships, and grace as I refine my own practice.
Considering an Anthropology of the Far Right
Chandra Middleton interviewed anthropologist Nitzan Shoshan, professor in the Center for Sociological Studies at the Colegio de México, about his award-winning book, The Management of Hate.
Collaborating with Undergraduate Research Assistants
Much of the research I do today is conducted in a manner completely opposite to that blissful, independent space of reading, writing, and observing that was the dissertation process.
Refusal as Care
It was my second time attending the neighborhood association meeting in the community where I was doing fieldwork. The association president had invited me, saying he thought it would be great if I talked about my project with the attendees and that, perhaps, some people would want to share about their experiences living under food apartheid.
