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About Anthropology Through Ethnography
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for AN103: Anthropology Through Ethnography
Featured Article from Sapiens
- Who Gets to Study Whom? As the field of anthropology struggles to shed its colonial past, the discipline has inadvertently put constraints on anthropologists of color who already face racism, bias, and discrimination.
Featured COVID-19 Resources
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- No Longer a Field (anthrodendum) Suspending my fieldwork due to the COVID-19 pandemic inspired a set of questions about the nature of ethnographic research: about how it is different from other kinds of research.
- Ethnography at an Impasse? Fieldwork Reflections during a Pandemic As COVID-19 disrupts life for billions of people around the world, it also calls into question the very notion of fieldwork and compels us to reflect on the practices that we take for granted. In what follows, three PhD students explore how the pandemic is affecting our fieldwork, prompting us to consider alternative approaches to being in the field and doing ethnography while bodily distancing.
This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.
