In the cactus garden - home. Top 100 Anthropology Blogs. Personal / Contact. Personal / Contact Eva Schiffer (PhD) I am a social scientist and facilitator, working as independent consultant, helping groups and individuals to better understand the complex realities in which they work and make most of their influence networks.
Before becoming independent, I worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the International Food Policy Research Institute, mainly living in a small town in northern Ghana (Bolgatanga) where I developed Net-Map as an answer to concrete local governance problems. In my work I am driven by never-ending curiosity and a passion for people. This is why I enjoyed living and working in Africa so much, because every day would bring new challenges and learning experience. Some basic biographical facts: I received my Master in Applied Cultural Sciences in Lueneburg, Germany in 2000, my PhD in Human Geography in Bochum, Germany in 2004. Contact: eva-schiffer@web.de. Like this: Like Loading... Exploring what it means to be an ethnographer today. Dissent Magazine.
Analog/Digital. MASN. Living Anthropologically. RSA - Home. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. As every experienced fieldworker knows, the most difficult task in social anthropological fieldwork is to determine the meaning of a few key words, upon an understanding of which the success of the whole investigation depends. – E.
E. Evans-Pritchard HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is an international peer-reviewed, open-access journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline. The journal is motivated by the need to reinstate ethnographic theorization in contemporary anthropology as a potent alternative to its 'explanation' or 'contextualization' by philosophical arguments, moves which have resulted in a loss of the discipline’s distinctive theoretical nerve. Danah boyd. The below original text was the basis for Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd’s March 2018 SXSW Edu keynote,“What Hath We Wrought?”
— Ed. Growing up, I took certain truths to be self evident. Democracy is good. War is bad. And of course, all men are created equal. My mother was a teacher who encouraged me to question everything. I loved pushing people’s buttons with these philosophical questions, but they weren’t nearly as existentially destabilizing as the moments in my life in which my experiences didn’t line up with frames that were sacred cows in my community. The funny thing about education is that we ask our students to challenge their assumptions. Science, Medicine, and Anthropology. Comics & Anthropology « Public Space, Information Accessibility, Technology, and Diversity at Oslo University College. This comic book, in both its form and content, breaks with the traditional way of presenting ethnography.
Traditionally, anthropology has been a written enterprise. Writing is perceived as the most scientific form of representation of social life. However, other forms of representation exist—not only in other disciplines (like art) but also within anthropology and social sciences. Anthropological findings have been presented in such forms as photography, film, and material exhibitions. Anthropologists are becoming increasingly inspired to branch out from the written word and use other forms of expression to present their findings. Material World. Personal / Contact « Net-Map Toolbox. The Memory Bank. Digital Ethnography - @ Kansas State University. DmiAbout. The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) is one of Europe's leading Internet Studies research groups.
Comprised of new media researchers and PhD candidates, it designs methods and tools for repurposing online devices and platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google) for research into social and political issues. With founding support from the Mondriaan Foundation, DMI has participated in a variety of funded research projects such as MACOSPOL (Mapping Controversies on Science for Politics) and EMAPS (Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science), the EU FP6 and FP7 projects led by Bruno Latour as well as Contropedia in the EU EINS scheme. Most recently, DMI is participating in ODYCCEUS, the H2020 project concerning opinion dynamics and cultural conflict in European spaces, CLEOPATRA, the H2020 project on cross-lingual event analysis as well as SoBigData++, the big data research infrastructure.
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Anthropological Theory The following materials are key presentation points developed by the instructor during class lectures.
They are not a substitute for student participation in the class lectures, but a highlighting of the pertinent items considered. The way you frame the questions asked in the quest to understand the human experience will inevitably influence the answers you come up with.