Ethnographic Research Methodology

Doel vak

Knowledge and understanding.
The student understands:
(1) the idea of ethnography
(2) various methods to plan, carry out and analyze ethnographic
research

Application.
The student has acquired the competences to:
(3) recognize and differentiate between core ethnographic approaches
and methods
(4) apply various ethnographic methods
(5) use ethical considerations to evaluate methods and situations in
ethnographic research practice

Learning skills.
The student has acquired the skills to:
(6) collaborate in small groups
(7) critically read and debate material

Attitude.
The student demonstrates:
(8) sensitivity to the expression of cultural knowledge in
everyday life
(9) the ability to recognize their own situated subjectivity

Inhoud vak

Ethnographic methods are essential to anthropological research.
Anthropologists constantly revisit the accuracy, analytical relevance
and ethical implications of their methodological repertoire to adapt
it to the contemporary world. After a comprehensive overview
over the history and theory of ethnographic research, the
course introduces students to core ethnographic methods, including
participant-observation, interviewing, fieldnote-writing, multi-sited,
visual, digital and autoethnographic methods. We focus both on
long-standing and emerging methodologies with a particular focus on
decolonial, engaged, embodied and empowering methodologies. To
foster research integrity, students learn to continuously reflect
on practical, political and ethical issues. Finally, the course focuses
on how anthropologists analyse, write-up and present ethnographic field
data.

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Lectures.

Toetsvorm

Digital exam.

Vereiste voorkennis

Active participation in Challenges of the 21st Century

Literatuur

To be announced in the course manual (see CANVAS).

Aanvullende informatie doelgroep

1st year bachelor students in Cultural Anthropology and Development
Sociology.