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Course Home E-mail the class Class discussion board FRIDAY HISTORICAL READINGS Oct 10: Pioneers Oct 17: Expertise Oct 24: Cliffords Oct 31: Danger Nov 7: El Dorado Nov 14: Emotions Nov 21: Natives M Dec 1: Assistants Dec 5: Summary MONDAY EXERCISES Sep 29: Experience Oct 6: Observation Oct 13: Interview Oct 20: Discomfort Oct 27: Formal Nov 3: Survey Nov 10: Photo Nov 17: Video Nov 24: Digital |
However fieldwork started, in the 1920s through the 1940s it became subject to more or less agreed-upon standards, and these standards were often applied retroactively. There also developed a convention that ethnographic monographs (not so much articles) ought to have an initial section or chapter devoted to the way the ethnographer carried out the fieldwork. This was often a narrative that began in confusion and ended up in analysis. Today we examine such narratives from three early heroes of anthropology, along with the later criticism of the methods of one of them.
Read the following: Then, by midnight on Thursday, October 16, post a comment of about 200 words on the role that fieldwork narratives such as the ones you have read here should play in our evaluation of the accuracy and worth of material contained in the ethnographies based on the fieldwork they narrate. |