Kursinformasjon

This course is part of the module "Methods in Anthropology", in which students are being made familiar with, and trained in, hands-on ethnographic field methods (reading seminar, 2hs - this moodle course), while constructing original ethnographic projects (writing seminar, 1h - see other moodle course). We will discuss the history and ethics of ethnography in relation to Anthropology’s colonial legacy and learn about the distinct ways in which anthropologists produce ‘data’ or ‘material’. These include more classical forms like participatory listening, conducting interviews, or discourse analysis, but also special modes of inquiry like sensory ethnography, walking methods and virtual ethnography. Throughout this class, students will read and interact with a wide array of case studies from which to build on when completing their own research. Since ethnography is both a way of knowing and a way of representation, we will inquire the relation between analyzing and showing. The course will help students understand what kinds of questions anthropologists can ask, and how ethnographic research serves to answer them.