ANTHR 6403

Ethnographic Field Methods

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

This course is designed to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students a practical understanding of what anthropologists actually do in what has traditionally been understood as the field, a construction that has been contested. We will examine situations that emerge in conducting fieldwork, and explore the ethical, methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and practical issues that are raised in the observation, participation in, recording, and representation of sociocultural processes and practices. Students are expected to develop a semester-long, local research project that will allow them to experience fieldwork situations.

When Offered Fall.

Comments Recommended prerequisite: Anthropology and related disciplines planning to use ethnographic methods in graduate research.

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