My Museum of Antique Technology
Janelle S. Taylor
by Janelle S. Taylor A few years ago, I moved out of the university office that I had occupied for many years. I kept the place relatively neat, but I [...]
My Museum of Antique Technology
Body on Canvas, Body as Canvas: About Media Mirrors, Plastic Mirages, and Intimate Reflections
Chiara Pussetti
“Don’t you ever, ever feel, like you’re less than fuckin’ perfect.” (Fuckin’ Perfect, Pink) The fieldnotes I have chosen to reflect on come from fieldwork I carried out in Lisbon, [...]
To Be Black, Female, and Conscious: Reflections on Fieldwork in Pre-Impeachment Brazil
Meryleen Mena
“[O]ur stories are silenced too often. The struggles and trials that women anthropologists must endure and overcome to get access to some of the same field sites and data as [...]
Between Notes and Diaries: Ethnographic Notes, Coevalness, and Positionality
Kamal Kariem
When I flew from the US to Russia, from Chicago to Vladivostok, the COVID-19 pandemic was not yet a pandemic. From the news, Russia seemed to be doing better [...]
From Anxiety to Method: Recollections of fieldwork and note-taking in a Kuranko Village (Sierra Leone)
Michael Jackson
One’s fieldnotes mirror one’s fieldwork, not simply because they record ethnographic observations but because they shed light on the life of the observer in the field (Devereux 1967). When I [...]
Being Noted
Daena Aki Funahashi
According to Anna Tsing and her Matsutake Worlds Research Group, “[g]ood fieldwork is supposed to change the fieldworker’s research questions” (2009, 382). This requires the fieldworker to “allow research objects [...]
Writer’s Block
Amelia Frank-Vitale
I could not write. I would get back to my apartment in the center of San Pedro Sula, and I could not write. I would pull my little red-orange hatchback [...]
Messy but Nurturing: Strategies for Engaging Fieldnotes
Laís Gomes Duarte
As an anthropology student in the United States, I have learned that fieldnotes are the bread and butter of ethnographic research. Over the course of my undergraduate, MA, and PhD [...]
Mobilizing words and cultivating change: Taking notes during the pandemic strikes in Colombia
Miryam Nacimento
After months of a seemingly endless pandemic, delayed plans, and many hesitations, I was finally able to begin my dissertation fieldwork in May 2021. I had spent countless hours longing [...]
Mapping a Precarious Fieldwork: Fieldnotes as Reflexive Companion
Geoffroy Carpier
I was born on the ocean shore in the far west of France. Attracted to the hectic tides of this deep blue screen ahead of me, I learned how to [...]
