Video: Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program 2016
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Video: Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program 2016

This video introduces the 2016 Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program. The founder and director of the program, Prof. Joshua Barker from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, is featured welcoming 13 high school students from the GTA to the program. The ELSHSP, which aims to introduce high school students from grades 10-12 to … Continue reading

Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #3)
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Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #3)

As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Following … Continue reading

The Visual Ethnography Group is having its first meeting
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The Visual Ethnography Group is having its first meeting

The Visual Ethnography Group, coordinated by Bronwyn Frey, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, will be having its first meeting on Friday, September 9th, 2016 from 2-4pm. Come join us in Room AP330 in the anthropology building at 19 Russell Street, Toronto. We will be introducing ourselves and brainstorming activities and … Continue reading

Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #2)
Updates / Visual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #2)

As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Click … Continue reading

Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #1)
Updates / Visual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography: Exploring Kensington Market (Video Update #1)

As part of a larger ongoing research project about Toronto’s Kensington Market, a group of students and film-makers are working together to produce an ethnographic film about this dynamic neighbourhood. Bronwyn Frey, a Master’s student at the University of Toronto, has chosen to share her video updates about the process of creating this film. Click below … Continue reading

The Summer High School Program (2016) is Under Way!
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The Summer High School Program (2016) is Under Way!

The 2016 Ethnography Lab Summer High School Program is officially under way! The program, which aims to introduce high school students from grades 10-12 to the practice of ethnography, kicked off on Monday, July 4th and will run until Friday July 8th. During the course of the program, the students will be exposed to lectures, … Continue reading

It’s Not a “Copt-Out”: Anthropology, Positionality, and Ethnography among Coptic Christians in Egypt and the United States
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It’s Not a “Copt-Out”: Anthropology, Positionality, and Ethnography among Coptic Christians in Egypt and the United States

From its beginning, socio-cultural anthropology was founded on ethnographic fieldwork. Often described as “going native,” anthropologists are expected to immerse themselves in the society they are investigating, by embracing the cultures, rituals, and traditions of their interlocutors, and living among them. A question that has emerged within anthropology over the last twenty-years or so, has … Continue reading

Jessika Tremblay Awarded Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund Award for Ethnography Lab Project
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Jessika Tremblay Awarded Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund Award for Ethnography Lab Project

The Ethnography Lab is pleased to announce that Jessika Tremblay, PhD Candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Anthropology, has been awarded a Faculty of Arts and Science Germany/Europe Fund award to lead a partnership building project with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Studies in the summer of 2016.  Jessika will be traveling to Germany with … Continue reading