Wednesday, December 16, 2020

innovative ethnography by manga, Southeast Asia.

This 20 page ethnography example will interest those who like to think about ethnographic forms.

We have heard that "the medium is the message" (Marshall McLuhan). I think he was talking about TV: no matter what content is presented the *medium* tells the viewers something about the structure of information, authority, reality and worldview.

So manga-ethnography is an interesting idea!
 
Here is the abstract from the linked page, below

Abstract

This is an excerpt from The King of Bangkok. Originally appearing in Chapter 3, the section we present is a flashback that follows the book's protagonist, Nok, on his journey to the island of Koh Pha-Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. Nok has secured work on a construction site there during the height of the country's economic boom. The section demonstrates how opportunity and precarity, excitement and devastation are fundamental forces animating and shaping the experiences of migrant workers like Nok.


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From: Rels-TLC <rels-tlc-bounces@groups.sas.upenn.ed
Subject: Rels-TLC Digest, Vol 138, Issue 33
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:27:40 +0100     From: Claudio Sopranzetti <sopranz83@ >gmail
Subject: [tlc] Preview and Interview on the forthcoming graphic novel in English, The King of Bangkok

COMMONING ETHNOGRAPHY VOLUME 3 contains a 20-pages preview of the next
graphic novel in the UTP EthnoGRAPHIC Series, The King of Bangkok, and an
interview with Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri and Chiara Natalucci on the
possibilities of graphic ethnography.

For those interested:
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ce/index?fbclid=IwAR2D4d4NMLI8jmgGx0oRsQ8eIAFHK3YQm5K5A3XlunUP4hixouhPhmOZb50
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

Curated online listening/watching, bi-weekly

(example) From the email to American Anthropological Association members on Saturday, December 5, 2020 and issued for the past month or so as a convenience and way to promote wider participation in these arenas.
 
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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Dogs sniffing our (human) bones from centuries ago

Excerpt from "Archaeology Dogs Can Help Scholars Sniff Out the Past"

A dog's nose performs at least 10,000 times better than ours. Specifically, dogs pick up on low-molecular-weight compounds that easily evaporate at room temperature and often carry an odor—what scientists call volatile organic compounds. Canines can detect one such part in every trillion.
     As a result, dogs have demonstrated uncanny olfactory abilities. They have sniffed out melanoma skin cancer in humans and detected pregnancy in cows just by picking up scents in their bodily fluids.
     So, what exactly are canines detecting at archaeological digs? "Our dogs are not actually searching for bones," Glavaš emphasizes. "They are searching for the molecules of human decomposition."

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Sunday, June 14, 2020

excerpt, Indigenous + Scholarly lens on local life

extracted from "Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact" by Zuleyka Zevallos [The Sociological Review]

...While sociology largely ignores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, Associate Professor Butler shows that the way in which we teach, research and discuss Indigenous experiences are framed through a White Western perspective that undervalues the complex cultures, spiritualities and social realities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Non-Aboriginal sociologists focus on written texts that exclude Indigenous people, ignoring oral traditions and seeking to mediate Indigenous experiences through White authority. 

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Although the subject and context is different, there seems to a parallel impasse between campus-based scholars and their colleagues of the same training but working on applied/practicing project: academic thinkers seek grant support for wide engagement while applied thinkers seek client support for matters defined by contract - the former uses cases studies to get at larger questions, while the latter uses larger questions to frame specific instances to grapple with. Likewise of indigenous knowledge keepers versus outsider scholars there is an impasse as well as intersection. While both may engage in the same subject, the standpoints and purposes differ. Academics see the fieldwork subject as an illustration of wider things, while local experts see the subject as inseparable from the names, places, and lives touched by that subject.
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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Britain's "Pompeii" time capsule, the Bronze Age site at Must Farm

Awarded the 2020 Antiquities prize for newly published and open access article, "The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement."

The article provides a site overview and the current interpretations of the archaeology alongside discussing the material found during the 2015-16 excavations.

See https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.38


or look at Facebook for updates to the project, https://www.facebook.com/MustFarmArchaeology/

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

reading - archaeology pages at Smithsonian Magazine

The section devoted to archaeology stories is at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeology/

Some of the titles include the following. -- [fall 2019 to spring 2020]

Treasure Trove of Artifacts Illustrates Life in a Lost Viking Mountain Pass

In Groundbreaking Find, Three Kinds of Early Humans Unearthed Living Together in South Africa

A Mysterious 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths

Divers Recover More Than 350 Artifacts From the HMS 'Erebus' Shipwreck

Angkor Wat May Owe Its Existence to an Engineering Catastrophe

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World

To Craft Cutting Tools, Neanderthals Dove for Clam Shells on the Ocean Floor

Twelve Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2019

Archaeologists Are Unearthing the Stories of the Past Faster Than Ever Before

Oldest Known Seawall Discovered Along Submerged Mediterranean Villages
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Monday, April 27, 2020

online Anthropology encyclopedia

A recent (c.2018) resource to browse, https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/articles-a-to-z
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Hey, be careful where you point thing [camera lens]

Article told from the point of view of people being recorded on camera or video camcorder: many considerations for the person waving the equipment around!
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Seven insights for photojournalists from those on the other side of the lens
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Actions over aesthetics

Expectations grow with experience

Representativeness over impact

Be more than just a fly on the wall

Privacy was more of a concern for older adults compared to younger ones.

Safety in numbers

There's no right to privacy in public — but people don't always understand that
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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Native American; paying attention to something besides capitalism

as an organizing principle for social life and livelihoods,
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