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Fall 2023 | ANTH 4035 Section 001: Ethnographic Research Methods (32250)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Field Work
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Blegen Hall 335
- Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- History of and current issues in ethnographic research. Research projects, including participant observation, interviewing, research design, note taking, life history, and other ethnographic methods. prereq: 1003 or 1005 or grad student
- Class Description:
- What is ethnography, and how does one conduct an anthropological study? The practice of ethnography is central to anthropology as well as the social sciences more broadly. Ethnographic fieldwork, from participant observation to interviewing to mapping social relations, generates the data through which we learn about our social world. Ethnography is the ground on which anthropology stands, for anthropologists make broad theoretical claims about our universe through detailed ethnographic research. As such, this class introduces students to the methodological and theoretical frameworks that make up the toolkit of a cultural anthropologist, as well as introduces students to the challenges that ethnographers face in the new millennium. In the past several decades, anthropologists have raised serious questions and challenges to the very foundations of what constitutes ethnographic fieldwork. How have the processes of globalization, transnationalism, postcoloniality, and the rise of virtual "online" communities changed our notions of "the field" and the singular field site? What are the complex negotiations of self and other given the challenges of "native" anthropologists and the discipline's heightened attention to inequality? How have anthropological ethics and reflexivity changed over time, and how have interdisciplinary engagements with critical theories of feminism, race, and power reframed the very questions we ask, and the way we address them? How have anthropologists innovated new ethnographic approaches that demonstrate the continued importance of the anthropological toolkit?
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
25% Special Projects
10% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
40% Discussion
15% Class Presentation15% Small Group Discussion on Ethnographic Field Project
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Ethnographic Research Paper based on actual fieldwork Other Workload: A hands-on introduction to the daily practicalities of ethnographic fieldwork: articulating a research problem, framing a field site, techniques of participant observation and interviewing, taking fieldnotes, and writing and analyzing data.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32250/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 June 2015
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