Syllabus, Readings and Ethnographic Assignments
Anthropological Field Methods Spring 2020 T/Th 12:30-2:20 AC Campus Room 313 Professor Laurie Greene Welcome to Anthropological Field Methods! This term we will be dipping our toes into anthropological research, learning the nuts and bolts of field methods, participant observation, and ethnographic analysis and writing. Our research site will be decidedly quotidian (everyday) in that we will look at the important cultural interactions that take place on our sidewalks. Urban and to some extent suburban life designates important meanings and functions to outdoor spaces; they are frequently open to greater interpretation than the indoors, and generally more accessible. What we tend to see are public spaces that morph and change in their functions and meaning based on community desires. Cultural Anthropology is the study of human cultures and the people who comprise them. The job of the anthropologist is to allow members of a culture to tell their stories, so, in essence an