By Nil Alt This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. My first and eventually successful attempt to enter my field, the UTSU food … Continue reading
Category Archives: Ethnography of the University
Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in ANT473 and ANT 6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, together with other members of the Ethnography Lab have been investigating various aspects of life at the University of Toronto. The purpose of the course is for students to learn how to conduct an independent ethnographic inquiry, analyse data, and write it up as an original contribution to knowledge. Data comes from observations, archives, interviews, photos and other methods, as students spend time in field sites in a range of venues across campus. They use weekly meetings for brainstorming, sharing insights, coming up with provisional analysis, and allocating tasks for individuals or sub-groups to work on in the week ahead. The resulting blog posts and final papers are archived here.
Populism on Campus? Examining Self-Victimization in the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Tarini Date and Annika Olsen This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. In our fieldwork among the pro-choice (Tarini) and pro-life (Annika) … Continue reading
Discovering a new world perspective (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Annika Olsen This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. Discovering a new world perspective “I have a dream…” Those were the words … Continue reading
“Untitled” (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Amanda Harvey-Sanchez, Amanda Sumanasekera, and Yiran Li. This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. Abstract Amanda S, Amanda H-S, and Yiran have … Continue reading
“Untitled” (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Amanda Sumanasekera This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. Introduction My name is Amanda Sumanasekera and I conducted fieldwork over a three … Continue reading
Ethnography as Obsession: On Immersion and Separation in Fieldwork and Writing (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By: Amanda Harvey-Sánchez and Annika Olsen This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. While Annika and Amanda both thoroughly enjoyed the process of … Continue reading
How Participant is Participant Observation? On Wearing My “Activist Hat” and My “Ethnographer Hat” (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Amanda Harvey-Sanchez This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. This reflection is inspired in part by an event. The event was a … Continue reading
Spanish at Massey College: One Language, Two Worlds (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
By Amanda Harvey-Sanchez This blog post as part of a series by the students of the University of Toronto Anthropology course ANT473 and ANT6200 Ethnographic Practicum: The University, taught by Prof. Tania Li at the University of Toronto in 2018. Click here for the syllabus. A key feature that emerged during my research at Massey College is the … Continue reading
Student bio: Yiran Li (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
My name is Yiran Li and I am a fourth-year international student double major in Cultural Anthropology and Art History. My major research interests are cross-culture communication and education and hope to develop my knowledge in these fields through anthropological studies. Blog posts by Yiran: Blog Post 1: The Missing Friendship Blog Post 2: What is … Continue reading
Student bio: Tarini Date (Ethnography of the University 2018: Focus on Politics)
My name is Tarini Date. I’m a fourth-year undergraduate student here at U of T. I double major in sociocultural anthropology and sociology and minor in women and gender studies. My project is focused on ethnographically examining how people respond to the increased pro-life demonstrations on campus. Pro-life demonstrators are known to use very large … Continue reading