Annabelle Chin Tomorrow, it will be over Words lost to time Our months will lay abandoned But the days they will be mine I joined for fleeting moments For the laughter through the pain The treasure was not glory But the friends we made along the way This is a poem I wrote to describe … Continue reading
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Craft 2025 / Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology / Excerpts from Journals and Final Papers / Updates
Women in Campus and Community Radio
Amelia Spong When I walk through the doors after being buzzed in, the station unfolds in front of me along one 100-foot-long hallway. Along the right side are my colleagues’ offices. Jacob and Dina share the big one, while Michelle gets her own mid-sized, although cluttered, space. To my left, a file cabinet stretches 9 … Continue reading
Craft 2025 / Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology / Excerpts from Journals and Final Papers / Updates
Desire and Sociality in a Toronto Sex Club
Jaelin Caverhill It is a bit of a weird experience, and continues to be, at least for me, to make eye contact with someone’s dick before them, but at Haven, nude bodies, explicit displays of sexuality, and undercurrents of desire are the norm. Porn plays on screens in almost every room, and it is not … Continue reading
Craft 2025 / Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology / Excerpts from Journals and Final Papers / Updates
Excerpts from Bibliosimia: Exploring Doug Miller Books
Daniel Cross As you enter the bookstore, the sounds of the Bloor Street traffic fade away, replaced by the thick quiet of soft creaking footsteps and rustling pages. Its small interior is made even smaller by the stacks of books and boxes sitting in front of the huge shelves, leaving just enough space in the … Continue reading
More than a Pocket Pet: An ethnography of Human-Guinea pig connection
Rosemary Morales Pongo I started this research out of curiosity from my personal observation of the time, affection, and money pet owners invest in their mascots. My ethnographic work focused on analyzing the emotional bonding between humans and animals. My field notes were the product of participant observation in a pet store, the home of … Continue reading
An Ethnography of the University of Toronto Fanfiction Club
Mira El Achhab For my ethnography project, I chose the UofT Fanfiction Club as my research site and over the course of the semester attended weekly meetings that I participated in and took notes on, interviewed two executives from the club, and read a number of works relating to fan studies and fandom ethnographies. From … Continue reading
An Ethnography of Performative Male Contests
Soren Morgan My ethnographic project, The Role of Irony in Socially Constructing the Self: A Study of “Performative Male” Contests took place over 3 months from September to November 2025. The “Performative Male” micro trend seemingly had macro implications as online engagement with this satirical phenomenon manifested beyond the screen to in-person GenZ communities at … Continue reading
An Ethnographic Sensibility in Consulting
By Johana Pokorney Thursday, January 29th, 2026, 5:00 – 6:00pm Room 330 – Ethnography Lab Boardroom 19 Ursula Franklin Street This session examines how skills and sensibilities honed through ethnographic research can be translated into qualitative research consulting projects and settings–and sometimes where they fail. Given that today many other professionals draw on similar methods, … Continue reading
Where is Arsenali Hill? Wrong Side of the Tracks in a Garden City
Please join us at the Ethnography Lab on Friday, December 5th, 5-6 pm, for a presentation of a work in progress by Eugene Slonimerov. 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Room 330 or online. The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi, Georgia as a non-human subject, a … Continue reading
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