Ethnography.com: Did Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) Seven Practices of Good...
I just finished my semester teaching as a Guest Professor at Leuphana University in Germany, and am beginning to figure out an answer to a question I get asked frequently: “What is the difference...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Here’s Why Jared Diamond is Irrelevant to Anthropology
As I discussed in a previous post, the blogosphere is atwitter (pun intended) about Jared Diamond’s new book The World before Yesterday. It seems his press agent got him some good publicity on NPR...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Ethnography and Russian Israelis in Tel Aviv: Getting...
by Daiva Repeckaite Guest blogger Daiva Repeckaite is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam. Her thesis research is on networking practices...
View ArticleEthnography.com: “Building Bildung,” and Other Improbabilities among German...
German has two words for the English word “education.” Erziehung describes the school system, and the mechanics of what is taught and conveyed from the world of adults to that of children in order...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Conferences as Thanksgiving Dinner
Adam Fish at SavageMinds.org has written about the problem conferences and conference fees. He asks whether they are really worth it for graduate students in particular—many grad students are told by...
View ArticleEthnography.com: More on Tooling
A few months back I wrote a post about tooling up for research That post lives here. A few months on I have discovered a few more tools to share. I should note here, that Kerim at Savage Minds has...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Hey Look, Social Scientists Can Sell Stuff Too
Now in 2013, The Atlantic, no less, has discovered that marketing firms can take advantage of social science skills, including participant observation, too, and published a nice story about it here....
View ArticleEthnography.com: Mla Bri Genetics and Anthropology in Northern Thailand
Many anthropologists are concerned with the tendency of biologists to reduce social life in general, and culture in particular to the genes people carry. As a sociologist, I share that concern. I...
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