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ANTH 5031 Section 100: Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods

Lesson 2: Social Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography

Aunger, Robert 1995. On Ethnography: Storytelling or Science? Current Anthropology 36(1):97-130.
Burton, Linda 1997. Ethnography and the Meaning of Adolescence in High-Risk Neighborhoods. Ethos 25(2): 208-217.
Fay, Michaela 2007. Mobile Subjects, Mobile Methods: Doing Virtual Ethnography in a Feminist Online Network. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 8 (3).
Gatson, Sarah N.; Zweerink, Amanda, 2004. Ethnography Online: ‘Natives’ Practicing and Inscribing Community. Qualitative Research 4(2):179-200.
Gordon, Tuula; Holland, Janet; Lahelma, Elina, et al, 2005. Gazing with intent: ethnographic practice in classrooms. Qualitative Research 5 (1): 113-131.
Green, Edward C. 2001 Can Qualitative Research Produce Reliable Quantitative Findings? Field Methods 13(3):3-19.
Gunn, Wendy, and Louise B Løgstrup. “Participant Observation, Anthropology Methodology and Design Anthropology Research Inquiry.” Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 13, no. 4 (October 2014): 428–42. doi:10.1177/1474022214543874.
Jordan, Ann 1996 Critical incident story creation and culture formation in a self-directed work team. Journal of Organizational Change Management 9(5):27-35.
Mantzoukas, Stefanos 2012 Exploring Ethnographic Genres and Developing Validity. Journal of Research in Nursing 17(5):420-435.
Marcus, George E. 2002 Beyond Malinkowski and After Writing Culture: On the Future of Cultural Anthropology and the Predicament of Ethnography. Australian Journal of Anthropology 13(2):191-199.
Olive, Rebecca. 2013. “Making friends with the neighbours’: Blogging as a research method”. International Journal of Cultural Studies Volume: 16 issue: 1, page(s): 71-84
Sarah Pink (2011) Images, Senses and Applications: Engaging Visual Anthropology,Visual Anthropology, 24:5, 437-454, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2011.604611
Watts, Jacqueline H. 2008 Emotion, Empathy and Exit: Reflections on Doing Ethnographic Qualitative Research on Sensitive Topics. Medical Sociology Online 3(2):3-14.
Woodthorpe, Kate 2011 Researching Death: Methodological Reflections on the Management of Critical Distance. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14(2):99-109.
Little, Tariana V.; Farber, Barbera; and Al-Kuwari, Shaikha H. 2015 Becoming Ethnographer: Social Repositioning in the Field. Practicing Anthropology 37(4): 14-17.
Haenn, Nora; Casagrande, David. 2007. Citizens, Experts, and Anthropologists: Finding Paths in Environmental Policy. Human Organization 66(2): 99-102
Casagrande, David; Hope, Diane; Metzger-Farley, Elizabeth; Cook, William; Yabiku, Scott; and Redman, Charles. 2007. Problem and Opportunity: Integrating Anthropology, Ecology, and Policy through Adaptive Experimentation in the Urban U.S. Southwest. Human Organization 66(2): 125-139.
Wasson, Christina. 2016. “Design Anthropology” in General Anthropology Volume 23, No. 2.
Grimshaw, Anna, and Amanda Ravetz. 2015. “The Ethnographic Turn - and after: A Critical Approach towards the Realignment of Art and Anthropology.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 23 (4): 418–34. doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12218.

Lesson 3: Theory / Epistemology

Giri, Ananta. 2006. "Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and Methods and the Calling of an Ontological Epistemology of Participation." Dialectical Anthropology 30, no. 3/4: 227-271.
Bourgois, P., SM Holmes, K. Sue, and J. Quesada. 2017. Structural vulnerability: Operationalizing the concept to address health disparities in clinical care. Academic Medicine 92 (3): 299-307
Lopez, AM, P. Bourgois, LD Wenger, J. Lorvick, AN Martinez, and AH Kral. 2013. Interdisciplinary mixed methods research with structurally vulnerable populations: Case studies of injection drug users in san francisco. International Journal of Drug Policy 24 (2): 101-9.
Meyfroidt, Patrick. 2013. Environmental cognitions, land change and social-ecological feedbacks: Local case studies of forest transition in Vietnam. Human Ecology 41 (3): 367-92.
Borofsky, Robert, Fredrik Barth, Richard A. Shweder, Lars Rodseth, and Nomi Maya Stolzenberg. "When: A Conversation about Culture." American Anthropologist 103, no. 2 (2001): 432-446.
Abu-Lughod, Lila "Writing Against Culture" In Fox, Richard Gabriel. 1991. Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press.
UNT libraries' print copy -- https://discover.library.unt.edu/catalog/b2611402
a pdf found on the web -- http://xcelab.net/rm/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/abu-lughod-writing-against-culture.pdf
Farmer, Paul. 2004. An anthropology of structural violence. Current Anthropology 45 (3): 305-25.
Pink, Sarah. 2008. “An urban tour: The sensory sociality of ethnographic place-making”. Ethnography 9(2): 175–196.
Rosaldo, Renato "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage" In 1993. Culture & truth: the remaking of social analysis : with a new introduction. Boston: Beacon Press. UNT Libraries' print copy
Ortner, Sherry B. "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26, no. 1 (1984): 126-66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/178524.
Ortner, Sherry B. "Dark Anthropology and its Others: Theory since the Eighties." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6, no. 1 (2016): 47-73.
Rodseth, Lars. "Hegemonic Concepts of Culture: The Checkered History of Dark Anthropology: Hegemonic Concepts of Culture." American Anthropologist 120, no. 3 (2018): 398-411.
Appadurai, Arjun. 2016. Moodswings in the anthropology of the emerging future. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (2): 1-4.
Salamone, F. A. (1979), Epistemological Implications of Fieldwork and Their Consequences. American Anthropologist, 81: 46–60. doi:10.1525/aa.1979.81.1.02a00040
Harrison, Faye V. 2016. “Theorizing in Ex-Centric Sites.” Anthropological Theory 16 (2–3): 160–76.
Schiller, Nina Glick. Positioning theory: An introduction Anthropological theory, 09/2016, Volume 16, Issue 2-3
Hogan, Susan and Sarah Pink. 2010. “Routes to Interiorities: Art Therapy and Knowing in Anthropology.” Visual Anthropology, 23: 158–174. DOI: 10.1080/08949460903475625
Hsu, Francis L. K.. “Prejudice and Its Intellectual Effect in American Anthropology: An Ethnographic Report”. American Anthropologist , Feb., 1973, New Series, Vol. 75, No. 1 (Feb., 1973), pp. 1-19. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/672337
Allen, Jafari Sinclaire and Ryan Cecil Jobson. The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current anthropology, 04/2016, Volume 57, Issue 2.
Sanchez, Andrew. Canon Fire: Decolonizing the Curriculum Cambridge anthropology, 09/2018, Volume 36, Issue 2.
Gardner, Katy, and David Lewis. "[Chapter] 1. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice into the Twenty-First Century." In Anthropology and Development : Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2015.

Lesson 4: Ethics and Research

Lesson 5.1: Research Design

Cognitive Mapping / Mental Mapping (may be used for Lesson 5.1 - Research Design)

Lesson 5.2: Observation and Fieldnotes

Lesson 6: Informants and Interviewing

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