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Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data – Part II

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Kristen Ghodsee
So I’m staring at some fieldnotes and trying to sort out the best way to blend my theoretical analysis with my ethnographic data. Where to start? How to find the right balance? Once again, I decided to contact fellow ethnographers to gather insights about their writing processes. Sociologist Olga Shevchenko also struggles with what parts of her fieldnotes to include:
Ethnographers as Writers: Write First Drafts in One Go

Savage Minds by Kristen Ghodsee

Many doctoral students fail to earn their PhDs because they never finish their dissertations. They complete their coursework, pass their qualifying exams, and do all of their research, but writing the thesis proves an insurmountable barrier. Why does the dissertation present such a challenge? Because students can’t push past the first chapter. Too many dissertators start with their introduction and find that they have nothing to say. Or they realize they have no idea what they are trying to introduce.

 

Bronze Age warrior from Poland

 Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog
The Ethnographic Book Trailer?

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
Movie trailers have been around for decades, and part of the fun of going to the cinema was always the sneak peaks of upcoming movies. With the proliferation of digital software like iMovie, and the ease of uploading just about anything to YouTube, the trailer has migrated from the world of movies over to the book industry.
On the Culture of Binge Drinking in a Residential College Town

Ethnography.com by Marianne Paiva
Ethnographers as Writers: Theory and Data – Part I

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Kristen Ghodsee
There's nothing more intimidating than a blank page.
There’s nothing more intimidating than a blank page.
Hellz yes National Anthropology Day is ON

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
The Internetz were atwitter recently with the announcement that 19th February 2015 is officially going to be National Anthropology Day. And yet some people expressed confusion. What is National Anthropology Day? What does it mean? What are we supposed to do? Some questions were quickly answered: If the holiday is generically labeled ‘National’ that must mean ‘They do it in the US’. But others questions persist — why this day, instead of other days? What, concretely, will occur?

Local Frontier Tourism Reviewed By Anthropologist
Times Record
John Lovett • Times Record Daniel Maher, assistant professor ofanthropology and sociology at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, left, speaks with Lindsay Scott, maritime archeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey Thursday, Jan. 15
Ethnographers as Writers: Consider Endnotes

…otes must have been a nightmare! But where did these conventions originate and how did they come to anthropology? The standard of in-text author-date citation derives from something called the “Harvard style,” which originated in
From #EbolaBeGone to #BlackLivesMatter: Anthropology, misrecognition, and the racial politics of crisis

… essay by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Adia Benton. Thurka Sangaramoorthy is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention
The Politics (and Stories) of Fieldwork in Cuba: Good job, President Obama, but is this just ‘here we go again’?

 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology
(This guest post comes to us from Laurie Frederik. Laurie is Associate Professor and Director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.  She is author of Trumpets in the Mountains: Theatre and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba, Duke University Press, 2012, and has been conducting research in Cienfuegos and Guantánamo provinces since 1997. -Rex )

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