Ubiquitous Ethnographies - Experimental Labs for Research and Teaching in the Anthropological Fieldwork
Abstract
In this chapter, the two authors present some reflections upon their experiences in terms of research and teaching in the anthropological fieldwork. Both the authors experimented with different formats of academic labs to question traditional dichotomic boundaries: students vs. professors, academia vs. external world, and science vs. art.As such, this essay is a theoretical assemblage composed of the different perspectival constructs from the two authors. Purposely, the exposition maintains a loosely tied structure and does not follow a typical academic format. The paper is, therefore, a juxtaposition of anthropological and philosophical concepts and personal experiences - sometimes stitched together in a way that is not firmly definable or unequivocally comprehensible. In this sense, this essay works as an interstitial meander that - in an experiential and performative manner - aims at representing the wandering of the two authors and their continual exposition to the uncertainties (and the beauty) of ethnography.
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--- (1967). A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word,Harcourt, Brace & World, New York
Marcus G E (1995) Ethnography in/of the World System: the Emergence of Mul-ti-sited Ethnography. Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 95-117
Marcus G E (1998) Ethnography through Thick and Thin. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
Nowotny H, Scott P, Gibbons M (2001) Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford-Malden
O’Mahony S, Bechky B A (2008) Boundary Organizations: Enabling Collabora-tion Among Unexpected Allies. Administrative Science Quarterly 53 (3): 422–459
Palmås K, von Busch O (2011) Helping Designers to Work Outside of Hierarchies: Towards a Scholarship of Design Meshworking. Swedish Design Research Journal 2: 39–47
Pessoa F (1980) O eu profundo e os outros eus. Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro
Rowan D (2012) Open University: Joi Ito Plans a Radical Reinvention of MIT’s Media Lab. Wired UK. Accessed November 2014 http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/11/features/open-university
Said E W (2006) On Late Style. Vintage Books, New York
Turner V (1982) From Ritual to Theatre. Performing Arts Journal Publ., New York
Ziman J (1996) Postacademic Science’: Constructing Knowledge with Networks and Norms. Science Studies 9 (1): 67–80
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2017-12-15
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CANEVACCI, Massimo; SIMEONE, Luca.
Ubiquitous Ethnographies - Experimental Labs for Research and Teaching in the Anthropological Fieldwork.
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