SUMMARY
Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers.
EDITORS
ANDREA BALLESTERO
Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of A Future History of Water, also published by Duke University Press. She also directs The Ethnography Studio.
BRIT ROSS WINTHEREIK
Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Ethnography at the IT University of Copenhagen and coauthor of Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures.
CONTRIBUTORS
Joseph Dumit, Markus Rudolfi, Clément Dréano, Katie Ulrich, Melanie Ford, Marisol de la Cadena, Helen Verran, Ivan da Costa Marquez, Antonia Walford, Steffen Dalsgaard, Justine Laurent, Oliver Human, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Els Roding, Ulrike Scholtes, Marianne de Laet, Annemarie Mol, James Maguire, Graham Jones, Karen Waltrop, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Elaine Gan, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Trine Mygind Korsby, Anthony Stavrianakis, Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, Laura Watts, Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Sarah Pink, Else Vogel, George E. Marcus
This innovative book about ethnography as knowledge provokes in all the right ways. Packed with concrete and creative suggestions for doing, writing, and teaching ethnography well beyond anthropology, Experimenting with Ethnography offers thoughtful inspiration for anyone seeking to sharpen their analytical skills.
— Carole McGranahan, editor of Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment
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Published: May 2021
Paper ISBN: 978-1-4780-1199-6
Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4780-1074-6