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ANTH 2517

Exploring Ethnography

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Contents folder under homework and readings: Homework from Class 1)
  • Section 1: What is Ethnography and How Do You Do It?
  • Class discussion of YouTube videos about ethnography
  • Homework: 1. Mannik and McGarry Introduction and Watch on YouTube video
  • Strangers Abroad series: “Off the Veranda” 52 min
  • Homework: 1. Read Geertz, Deep Play. Focus your note taking on the fieldwork
  • challenges. 2. M&M
  • (last day to submission next class
  • enrol is Slides on doing participant observation
  • Jungle: Malinowski
  • Section 2: Ethnographies and Comparisons Between Ethnographies (Ethnology)
  • Discussion: Social Exchange
  • Homework: Alcohol reading, 2. M&M
  • Discussion: Alcohol
  • Homework: Joking reading
  • Short introduction to Peru (background for reading ethnography)
  • Discussion: Joking
  • Group Project Discussion and group formation
  • Homework: Gossip reading, Guelke
  • Discussion: Gossip
  • Term Project Discussion
  • Homework: Guelke
  • Discussion: Guelke

Readings

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Introduction to the Course
  • Origins and development of fieldwork in Sociocultural Anthropology
  • Practicing Ethnography I: Participant Observation
  • Practicing Ethnography II: Connecting with Others
  • Practicing Ethnography III: Ethics and the Politics of Fieldwork
  • After fieldwork - Analyzing the data
  • Ethnography as Writing and the Politics of Representation
  • Applied Anthropology
  • Autoethnography: Shifting Perspectives
  • Thought-Provoking Ethnographies
  • Final Project Presentations

Readings

  • Mannik, Lynda &. McGarry, Karen (2017). Practicing Ethnography: A Student Guide to Method and Methodology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
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