As more and more of the world gains access to the internet, cell phones, and accompanying technologies, ethnographers’ field sites often multiply and become at least partially digital. Traditional ethnographic field methods for physical locations remain crucial to training junior anthropologists, but methodologies that do not keep pace with ever-shifting loci of communication and cultural … Continue reading
Anthropology is just one of many disciplines that uses ethnography – or the systematic and in-depth description of various social or cultural phenomena – to enrich our understanding of the strange and familiar goings-on around us. “This is Anthropology” is a detailed slideshow put together by the students at the University of South Florida a … Continue reading
The Infrastructures Research Group (IRG) is a collection of projects that use ethnography to understand the formal and informal politics that affect global access to urban infrastructures like railroads, water pipes, and electricity. In an ideal world, governments would provide all citizens with access to urban infrastructures in an equal and fair manner. Yet as … Continue reading
Ethnography Lab 