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Ethnography. Not Just Another Qualitative Method

Bowls of multi-colored Holi powder.

A Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar

Friday, April 21, 2017, 9:00 – 3:30

Hosted by the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, the Department of Critical Media Practices, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Schedule

9.30 am What is Ethnography?

Carole McGranahan, Anthropology

10 am Fieldwork: What We Do When We’re Doing Ethnography

  • Kate Goldfarb, Anthropology
  • Chris Hammons, Anthropology/Critical Media Practices
  • Jerry Jacka, Anthropology
  • Kaifa Roland, Anthropology

11 am Concurrent Workshops

  • Seeing Like an Ethnographer, Stephanie Spray, Critical Media Practices
  • Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Carla Jones, Anthropology
  • Writing Like an Ethnographer, Kristen Drybread, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

1 pm Provocations

  • Rigor, Validity, & Discipline in Ethnographic Method
    Carole McGranahan, Anthropology
     
  • Looking, Filming, Translating (or Not)
    Stephanie Spray, Critical Media Practices
     
  • Fieldwork & Real Life: On Blurring without Boundaries
    Bianca Williams, Anthropology

3.15 pm Closing Remarks

Dan Boord, Critical Media Practices