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EFieldnotes by Roger Sanjek

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Sixteen scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. Reflecting on fieldwork globally, they discuss shifting boundaries between home and field, ethics in online fieldwork, new forms of digital data and collaboration, and the future of fieldnote archiving.

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EFieldnotes by Roger Sanjek

Sixteen scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. Reflecting on fieldwork globally, they discuss shifting boundaries between home and field, ethics in online fieldwork, new forms of digital data and collaboration, and the future of fieldnote archiving.
"Published in 1990, Roger Sanjek's landmark edited volume Fieldnotes built on debates associated with Writing Culture and other works of the time, exploring the often unacknowledged but pivotal role of fieldnotes in ethnographic researcheFieldnotes, coedited by Sanjek with Susan Tratner, builds on that legacy with a new set of landmark essays on fieldnotes in the digital age . . . [that] push us to rethink the relationship between the empirical, methodological, and theoretical in ethnographic inquiry-in a context when the digital age threatens the methods and time frames of ethnography, yet simultaneously offers new opportunities for relevance and insight." (Journal of Anthropological Research) "The 15 articles offer richly nuanced readings of the changing nature of fieldwork and the variety of notes that arise from digital sources . . . A welcome addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on fieldwork methods . . . Highly recommended." (Choice) "From a well-argued exploration of historical continuities between practices and premises in the earlier world of fieldnotes and those characteristic of the current digital terrain, to a sophisticated, complex, and candid discussion of ethics in the broadest sense, eFieldnotes is an extraordinarily interesting and worthy successor to the classic Fieldnotes, and a lively set of provocations on its own." (Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Roger Sanjek taught anthropology at Queens College, CUNY, from 1972 to 2009. He is the editor of Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Susan W. Tratner is Associate Professor at SUNY Empire State College.
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ISBN 13 9780812247787
ISBN 10 0812247787
Title EFieldnotes
Author Roger Sanjek
Series Haney Foundation Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published 2015-09-23
Number of pages 277
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.