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Category: fieldwork / methods
25/11/09
Book review: Presenting 2nd generation Multi-Sited Ethnography
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research (ed.) Mark-Anthony Falzon. 2009. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-7318-7.Tereza Kuldova (Tessa Valo), PhD fellow, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo This edited volume cons… more »
07/06/09
Fieldwork among homeless heroin and crack users - new book by Philippe Bourgois
"In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio" is one of my favorite ethnographies. Now, Philippe Bourgois, is out with a new book. In “Righteous Dopefiend", he looks at the clients of the dealers, the University paper Penn Current reports.
The pa… more »
Is the anthropologist a spy? New Anthropology Matters is out
When anthropologist Michael Madison Walker did research in rural Mozambique, he - as a white man - was variously assumed to be a priest, a development worker, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and even a spy. Fieldwork identities is the topic of the new issu… more »
04/12/08
New Anthropology Matters out: Practicing anthropology "out of the corner of one's eye"
Why do people wear and produce fake underwear, fake suits and fake jeans? In the new issue of Anthropology Matters, anthropologist Magdalena Craciun tells us in a well written paper about what it was like researching "the place of fake brands in lives li… more »
27/11/08
03:16:54, by Lorenz 
. Categories: technology, Africa, development empowerment, gender, books, fieldwork / methods How electricity changes daily life in Zanzibar - Interview with anthropologist Tanja Winther
How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to people in a village in Zanzibar, East Africa, for the first time? Anthropologist Tanja Winther answers this question in her new book The Impact of Electricity. Development, Desires and D… more »
What happened at the AAA meeting in San Francisco?
The American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting is over - here a quick round-up of the conference coverage on the web.
Anthropology and the military was a hot topic this year as well as Inside Higher Ed informs in three articles:
Accordi… more »
01/11/08
"A new interdisciplinary approach to the perception of art"
When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art in a museum or gallery? How can art change people's lives? Anthropologist Sandra Dudley, and neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga will develop a new, interdisciplinary approach to the perception… more »
26/10/08
00:47:40, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Asia, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general) Accused of being CIA-spy: Anthropologist on fieldwork among Cambodian muslims
Are muslim communities getting more sceptical towards anthropologists? In an interview with Phnom Pen Post, anthropologist Bjørn Blengsli tells about his research among muslims in Cambodia - "one of the fastest-changing Muslim societies in the world".… more »
25/10/08
23:07:44, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), persons and theories, journal articles / papers George Marcus: "Journals? Who cares?"
When George Marcus, one of the most influential anthropologists, was in Oslo recently, I asked him what he thinks about Open access. His answer surprised me. He said: "Journals? Who cares?" There is little original thinking in journals, no longer exciti… more »
14/09/08
Nigel Barley: "Fiction gives better answers than anthropology"
"Fiction's more fun. It lets you look inside people's heads in a way you wouldn't dare to do if you stuck to anthropology", anthropologist Nigel Barley says in an interview with the Telegraph:
"As an anthropologist you're always asking questions such… more »
14/04/08
Manga instead of scientific paper: How art enriches anthropology
"Anthropologist creates oceanic manga fantasy" is the headline of a story in The Daily Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper). "I want to portray in manga what I gained from field investigation, but cannot fully express in scientific papers," anthropologis… more »
04/04/08
13:43:53, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, persons and theories, youth, journal articles / papers Transforming the Anthropology of Childhood - Anthropology News April
Has Anthropology News gone open-access? 14 articles of the new issue are online. Anthropology News examines new ways of thinking about childhood and children's roles and experiences. Methodological challenges of anthropological work with and of children… more »
03/04/08
23:37:13, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, youth, journal articles / papers Examples of engaging anthropology - New issue of "Anthropology Matters"
How can anthropology contribute to understanding and fighting inequality? The new issue of Anthropology Matters brings together articles from the first British postgraduate MA in Applied Anthropology and Community and Youth Work. Most of the students ar… more »
30/03/08
15:51:51, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, development empowerment, fieldwork / methods, Native American, Caribbean, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, websites Another way of doing fieldwork: Developing websites with your informants!
Indigenous communities have embraced the internet from early on. The website of the Oneida Indian Nation was set up before the website for the White House. Anthropologist Maximilian C. Forte has developped several websites in collaboration with indigenou… more »
05/03/08
16:52:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, fieldwork / methods, Visual Anthropology, internet, websites "Visual Anthropology of Japan" and more new blogs
Visual Anthropology of Japan" is the name of the blog by anthropologist Steven Fedorowicz (Kansai Gaidai University). All of his students in his class with the same name are required to blog. He links to more than a dozen student blogs.
He explains:… more »
26/02/08
15:15:05, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, University / Academia, internet, websites Plans to study anthropological online communities and Open Access movement
Anthropology of anthropology: How do anthropologists form online communities? How are open access publishing and other developments that have sprung up online changing community boundaries? Soon, an anthropologist will do fieldwork among us online anthro… more »
22/02/08
Professor lets students blog their field experiences: More than 20 new blogs online!
Anthropology professor Joe Rubenstein has started an interesting project: Students in his course "Field Methods" are expected to blog their field experiences (it seems). Their research topic is teens and adolescence.
"The purpose of writing on our bl… more »
26/01/08
Australian anthropologist is Japan's first-ever foreign geisha
A documentary film-maker and academic with a doctorate in anthropology from Oxford University, Fiona Graham has just become what she says is the first non-Japanese in 400 years to debut as a geisha. But she hasn't become a geisha for private reasons: Sh… more »
30/10/07
New fieldwork blog: Struggling with antipathy for the field and "anthropology-fed-up-ness"
Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.
In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of the fi… more »
17/10/07
11:53:18, by Lorenz . Categories: fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers Why is anthropological writing so boring? New issue of Anthropology Matters
Writing Up and Feeling Down is the topic of the new issue of the Anthropology Matters Journal. The articles outline the challenges involved when moving from fieldwork to writing, when trying to draw an argument out of unwieldy case studies, when you are… more »
30/09/07
23:35:17, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers When Norwegians do business in Brazil, Lowrider Culture and 9 more anthropology theses (part 1)
Norwegian anthropologists no longer hide their master theses in distant libraries. Most theses are now available online in digital archives. Last week, more than 20 new theses (among them 11 in English) have been put online at DUO, the digital library of… more »
06/06/07
Going native - part of the darker arts of fieldworkers’ repertoir?
Anthropologist Cicilie Fagerlid is studying poetry slam in Paris and has become one of them she is studying as we see in the video of herself - the anthropologist as slammeuse. She seems to be in quite an intensive period of fieldwork and is wondering: I… more »
02/06/07
04:30:17, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia, ethics Protests against British research council: "Recruits anthropologists for spying on muslims"
Reading my earlier post “The dangerous militarisation of anthropology” you might get the impression that this is something that only regards the U.S. But the same thing is happening in Britain. A few weeks ago the Association of Social Anthropologists of… more »
28/05/07
03:15:49, by Lorenz . Categories: applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, journal articles / papers, University / Academia, ethics More and more anthropologists are recruited to service military operations
The connections between anthropologists, military counterinsurgency experts and intelligence agencies are multiplying and deepening. It is well known that anthropologists work for the military. But government agencies may be only the tip of the iceberg.… more »
02/04/07
01:24:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Five more interviews on cultural complexity!
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
28/02/07
12:36:22, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, aboriginees, fieldwork / methods, music "A new approach to the collection of traditional Aboriginal music"
The days of anthropologists taking recordings away to Canberra where they might as well be lost to the community forever, are now gone according to ABC Radio (Australia) in a story about the National Recording Project. Its aim is to document the traditio… more »
19/02/07
Panic, joy and tears during fieldwork: Anthropology Matters 1/2007 about emotions
How to understand religious experiences when you have not 'experienced' the experiences? What is the function of emotions in the anthropological research process? Do emotions operate as 'anthropology's taboo'? Or are they key tools in our understanding… more »
09/02/07
15:30:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, fieldwork / methods, University / Academia Fieldblogging from Nicaragua
It's a privilege to be an anthropologist on fieldwork. Reading Cicilie's field blog from Paris and now also Antropyton's field blog from Nicaragua makes me wonder: Why am I still sitting on my messy desk (picture) in Oslo?
A few weeks ago, Antropyton… more »
21/01/07
18:46:49, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, youth, journal articles / papers Doctoral thesis: Towards a transnational Islam
Young muslims are moving from an Islam based on the culture of their homeland to an increasingly transnationally embedded Islam of Muslims from many different countries and cultures. That's one of the findings in the doctoral thesis by Norwegian anthrop… more »
01/12/06
14:12:26, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology Open Source Fieldwork! Show how you work!
Andreas Lloyd from the University of Copenhagen extends our notion of Open Access Anthropology and writes:
Now that I’ve officially finished my fieldwork, and with all the talk going on about Open Access Anthropology, I thought I’d try my own little… more »
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