ANTHR 4403 - Ethnographic Field Methods

(SSC-AS) (SBA-AG)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Permission of instructor required. Recommended prerequisite: Anthropology Majors or Minors having completed ANTHR 3000 and working towards a major research project using ethnographic methods. Co-meets with ANTHR 6403.

S. Langwick.

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.