Many anthropologists stress the importance of ethnography, and when it comes to disciplinary turf wars anthropologists can also be very protective of it. In his post “Ethnographic Disciplines”, Enkerli argues ethnography has also developed in a number of other disciplines. He writes: “I specifically wish to point out that ethnography is not an “exclusive prerogative” [...]
Archive for November, 2008
28 Nov
anthropology – a changing discipline
One of the goals of this project is for me to develop an understanding, and a proper answer to, the question “what is anthropology?”. In my program, anthropology takes on numerous positions/meanings/purposes. I’m not ready to answer the question definitively, and instead I’ll try to “inform the question”. What is anthropology? Talal Asad discusses the [...]
27 Nov
engaging academia
I’ve read a lot about engaging anthropology, but I came across a program run through Concordia that works to engage academia. The University of the Streets Cafe is a program that hosts conversations about social issues. They invite participation from a broad audience, and their website and information pamphlets highlight the importance of conversation as [...]
12 Nov
self-archiving and anthropology – not there yet
[warning this is a grumpy blogger post... it could have been written in more productive way, but anyways... ] I was pretty excited to help some collaborators self-archive their work. Having read hundreds of blog posts advocating it, and being a strong believer in the ethical necessity of making anthro research accessible, I am sad [...]
11 Nov
on writing proposals and making sense of ones research
Writers block is one thing, but I’m feeling cursed. Everytime I sit down to fix my original proposal I blank out. The original got a tenuous approval, and has since been returned to me with a list of necessary corrections (ie. I failed to include page number references in my quotes…). Why a block? because [...]
10 Nov
working online – collaboration in its infancy
An interesting article/interview with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder, touched on a number of issues important to my research. Here is the juiciest segment: … “He acknowledged collaboration has its limits, noting that if “we said we want to write a novel about loss, and redemption, probably not so much public collaboration, that’s really an individual [...]
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