Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:2, Tt:2, Lb:0]
- Introduction to anthropology, ethnography and history of ethnographic
methods; What is culture and how to study it? What is the field?
Investigating the idea of native informant. Nature of questions in ethnographic
research; Research design;
- Methods of ethnography: fieldwork, participant-observation, interviewing,
biography, life histories; audio and visual methods;
- Analysis of ethnographic data: writing field notes, transcription, coding,
grounded theory, analysis of visual material; immersive and multi-sited ethnography;
interrogating power in the field; The spatial turn in anthropology and ethnography;
- Writing culture: describing, framing and theorizing from the field; investigating
experience and emotions in the field;
- Reading ethnographies: feminist ethnography; urban ethnography; disaster ethnography; ethnography of globalization, institutional ethnography, ethnography of the virtual
world;
- Experimental ethnographies: sensory ethnography, participative
ethnography, auto-ethnography; ethnographic filmmaking; interface of
ethnography, history and fiction; ethics, positionality and reflexivity;
writing ethnography.
- M. N. Srinivas, The Remembered Village, Second Edition, Oxford University Press. March 2013.
- M. Gordon, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, University of Chicago Press. 2011.
- L. Nader, Ethnography as Theory, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1(1): 211-219, 2011.
- C. McGranahan, What is Ethnography? Teaching Ethnographic Sensibilities Without Fieldwork, Teaching Anthropology 4: 23-36, 2014.
- M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language New York: Vintage. Pp. 3-17, 21-39, 1994[1966].
