An Ethnographic Inventory

This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of relational invention.

Autorentext

Tomás Sánchez Criado is Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the CareNet-IN3 of the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.

Adolfo Estalella is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Inhalt

Introduction: The ethnographic invention

Adolfo Estalella and Tomás Sánchez Criado

Interlude I: The principle of invention (Outside in)

Martin Savransky

1. How to counter-map collectively

Counter-Cartographies Collective (3Cs)

2. How to produce responsive ethnography of data

Jorge Núñez and Maka Suárez

3. How to use disconcertment as ethnographic field-device

Helen Verran

4. How to draw fieldnotes

Letizia Bonanno

5. How to do a digital epidemiography

Shama Patel and John Postill

6. How to make ethnographic research with exhibitions

Francisco Martínez

7. How to write fieldpoetry

Leah Zani

8. How to flow with materials

Rachel Harkness

9. How to game ethnography

Ignacio Farías and Tomás Sánchez Criado

10. How to get caught in the ethnographic material

Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano

11. How to devise collaborative hermeneutics

Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun

12. How to set ethnography in motion

Monika Streule

13. How to use Pathosformeln in anthropological inquiry

Anthony Stavrianakis

14. How to perform field encounters

Andrew Irving

15. How to invent childhood publics with photo-stories

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss

16. How to remediate ethnography

Adolfo Estalella

17. How to disrupt our field habits with sensory probes

Anna Harris

18. How to stitch ethnography

Tania Pérez-Bustos

Interlude II: An elimination dance (a history of disciplining the field/s)

Denielle Elliott

Interlude III: The politics of invention

Isaac Marrero-Guillamón and E. Gabriel Dattatreyan

Conclusion: Taking inventory

Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella