Luis A. Vivanco
Are you looking for more opportunities to integrate active learning into your cultural anthropology courses? Do you believe that anthropological fieldwork skills - listening, asking good questions, and being observant - are useful life skills? This unique book addresses both of these concerns,
integrating an introduction to fieldwork methods, guidance, and practice into one book. Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology provides more than fifty activities to help students learn and practice common ethnographic research techniques, to reflect on their experiences doing these
things, and to examine the ethical dimensions of ethnographic research.
As they work through the book, students can fill the journal with lists, field notes, visual materials, and rough writings for use in specific class projects, as a record of skill development, or to think about
future work. Each chapter includes four to six guided exercises; some are reflections or thought experiments, while others require students to practice skills by involving themselves directly in their social worlds. In order to cultivate an awareness of research ethics, a number of exercises focus
on ethical dilemmas and issues.
Introduction
1. Anthropology Beyond "Just Go Do It"
Part 1: Preparing for Fieldwork
2. Fieldwork: A Concise and Practical Overview
3. Fieldwork Values and Ethics
Part 2: Doing Fieldwork
4. Note-Taking
5. Observing
6. Listening
7. Asking Questions
8.
Mapping
9. Visualizing
10. Experiencing
11. Going Digital
Part 3: Working with Fieldwork Data
12. Processing Field Notes
13. Crafting an Ethnographic Account
Acknowledgments
References
Companion Website
Instructor Resources:
Links and further reading
Student activities
Student quizzes
Bibiolography of resources
Luis A. Vivanco is Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Vermont.
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