As such, the readings and exercises will help you cultivate various modes of attention, participation, and observation gain experience writing fieldnotes and producing other forms of documentation analyze the fieldwork material that you gather/produce grapple with the ethics of accountability and representation and experiment with forms of writing that might be adequate to the task of weaving analysis, narration, and theorization into a genre recognizable as “ethnography. The goal is to explore various ways of attuning yourself to the demands-pragmatic, conceptual, political, aesthetic, to name a few-of producing knowledge that is grounded in experience. Building on three fieldwork exercises, each student will design and implement a small fieldwork project based on observation and interviewing, which will be the basis of an analytical case study. A possible anthropology methods for uneasy times by Anand Pandian.
In tandem with the readings and our class discussions, you will complete a number of exercises aimed at familiarizing yourself with some of the practical and epistemological issues raised by fieldwork and helping you develop what we might think of as ethnographic sensibilities. A possible anthropology by Anand Pandian, 2019 edition, in English. You will alternate between readings that explicitly address methods for conducting fieldwork and those that enact and theorize the transformation of that research into writing. The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. This graduate seminar is an invitation to think through what it takes to do and write ethnography. Fishpond Fiji, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times by Anand. The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task.
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