Ethnographic Methods

Harvard HGSE

This seminar explores the epistemology, conduct, and politics of ethnographic fieldwork. Along with engaging several classic and contemporary texts, seminar members will collect, analyze, and wrestle with ethnographic data. In service to the seminar's broad goals, members will engage in various stages of the ethnographic process: gaining access to a research site or population, taking field notes, conducting and transcribing interviews, and engaging in preliminary analyses of their data.…