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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What does the daily practice of writing fieldnotes look and feel like to ethnographers? What do fieldnotes actually look like, and how are they best written and organized? Why, [...]
The cracked floors and peeled walls of a resident’s room. Dilapidated furniture, peeled walls, cracked floors, cluttered up spaces. These are deteriorated landscapes, precarious topographies. How does [...]
by Melanie Ford Lemus and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Melanie Ford Lemus, AES editorial intern and graduate student at Rice University, interviews Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, associate professor of anthropology at Bard College, about her prize-winning [...]
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