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)
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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

Imaging Kensington
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Imaging Kensington

Imaging Kensington is a series of informal meet-ups of members of the Ethnography Lab who explore Kensington Market in more depth through personal photography and focused discussions on multidisciplinary themes. This past month we have been using the concepts of palimpsest, facade and bricolage to seek new insights into ways that the past plays out in the present in the social, cultural and spatial … Continue reading

Upcoming Talk: Tłı̨chǫ ETHNOGRAPHY AND ORAL TRADITION: ETHNOARCHEOLOGY IN SUBARCTIC CANADA
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Upcoming Talk: Tłı̨chǫ ETHNOGRAPHY AND ORAL TRADITION: ETHNOARCHEOLOGY IN SUBARCTIC CANADA

The Ethnography Lab is pleased to welcome Rebecca Gray to the 2015-2016 Speaker Series on Friday, November 13th, 5-6pm, for a discussion about ethnoarchaeology in the subarctic. In June 2015 I traveled to the community of Behchokǫ, NWT in order to interview Tłı̨chǫ elders, members of the Dene first nation, as a part of my … Continue reading

When Lucky Strike Meets Levi-Strauss: Anthropology & Marketing
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When Lucky Strike Meets Levi-Strauss: Anthropology & Marketing

Ever wonder what it’s like for an anthropologist outside the ivory tower? A follow-up to the Ethnography Lab’s “Ethnography in the Private Sector” talk by Graham Candy, anthropology students who interned at Diamond Integrated Marketing this past summer will be talking about what it’s like translating theory learned in the classroom to strategy presented in … Continue reading

Upcoming Talk October 23: Multi-Sited Ethnography in Canada
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Upcoming Talk October 23: Multi-Sited Ethnography in Canada

Reassembling Ethnography: Using Mulit-Sited Fieldwork to Meet the Challenges of Researching the Canadian Wild Food Trade The Ethnography Lab is pleased to welcome Dylan Gordon to the 2015-2016 Speaker Series on Friday, October 23rd, 5-6pm, for a discussion about multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Canada. From an ethnographer’s perspective, commercial pickers of wild foods are challenging … Continue reading