Course materials are comprised of books, a compilation of texts (Compendium) and online articles.
You can buy the required book from Akademika Blindern bookstore, or purchase through online booksellers such as amazon.co.uk. Required book can be borrowed from the University Library (provided the item is held).
"Kopiutsalget” on the lower level of Akademika Blindern bookstore, sells course materials such as compendia. You will be required to show your UiO student ID and semester card prior to your transaction. If course material is out of stock, please contact the department asap in the semester in order for us to re-order.
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Booklist
@ Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka. 2012. Ethnographic Fieldwork. An anthropological reader. 2012. Blackwell Publishing. (672 pages – of which app. 241 pages are assigned).
Choose one of the following monographs:
- Alex Nading. Mosquito Trails. Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement (287 pages)
- Audra Simpson. Mohawk Interruptus. Political Life across the Border of Settler States (280 pages)
- Caroline Schuster. Social Collateral. Women and Microfinance in Paraguay’s Smuggling Economy (286 pages)
- Clara Han. Life in Debt. Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile (347 pages)
- Gaston Gordillo. Rubble. The Afterlife of Destruction. (336 pages)
- Ilana Gershon. The Breakup 2.0. Disconnecting over New Media (224 pages)
- Karen Ho. Liquidated. An Ethnography of Wall Street (392 pages)
- Nikhil Anand. Hydraulic City. Water and the infrastructures of citizenship (310 pages)
- Philippe Bourgois. In search of respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio (432 pages)
- Tania Li. Land’s End. Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier. (240 pages)
- Tom Boellstorff. Coming of Age in Second life. An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (344 pages)
Compendium
Bourdieu, Pierre “To the reader” pp. 1-2 and “The order of things” pp. 60-76 in Pierre Bourdieu et al (1999): The Weight of the world. Social Suffering in the Contemporary World. Standford: Standford university press. (18 pages)
Evans-Pritchard, E.E. “Some reminiscences and reflections on fieldwork”, pp. 240-254 in Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande, 1976. Oxford. Oxford University Press. (14 pages)
Madden, Raymond “Ethnographic Fields: home and away”, chapter two in Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography, 2010. Sage publications, pp. 37-55 (18 pages).
Passaro, Joanne “You can’t take the subway to the field! ‘Village’ epistemologies in the global village”, pp. 147-162 in (eds.) Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (1997): Anthropological Locations. Berkeley: University of California Press. (15 pages)
Rosaldo, Renato “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage”. In (ed.) Robbin Antonius (2004): Death, mourning, and burial: a cross-cultural reader. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition 2005. (11 pages).
H. Russell Bernard: Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Lanham. Altamira Press, 2006. Chapters:
- “Preparing for Research” pp. 69-95 (26 pages).
- “Field Notes: How to Take Them, Code Them, Manage Them” pp. 342-386 (44 pages).
- “Participant Observation” pp. 387-412 (25 pages).
Online articles
Blommaert, Jan and Chris Bulcaen (2000): “Critical Discourse Analysis”, Annual Review of Anthropology, pp. 447-466 (19 pages).
Boellstorff, Tom (2008): “Method”, chapter 3 in Coming of Age in Second Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (26 pages)
Burawoy, Michael (1998): "The extended case method". Sociological Theory, 16(1): 14-33. (29 pages)
Davies, J. (2010): “Introduction: Emotions in the field”, pp.1-31 in Davies J. and D. Spencer (eds.) Emotions in the Field: the psychology and anthropology of fieldwork experience. Stanford. Stanford University Press. (31 pages)
Harden, Jacalyn (2011): “Native like me: Confessions of an Asiatic black anthropologist”. Critique of Anthropology. 31(2): 139-155. (16 pages).
Hume, Lynne and Jane Molcock, J. (2004): “Introduction: Awkward spaces, productive places”. Pp xi-xxvii in Hume and Molcock (eds.) Anthropologists in the field: case studies in participant observation. New York. Columbia University Press. (16 pages)
Kirsch, Stuart (2010): “Experiments in Engaged Anthropology”. Collaborative Anthropologies, Vol. 3, pp. 69-80 (12 pages).
Markham, A. (2013): Fieldwork in Social Media: What would Malinowski do? Qualitative Communication Research, 2(4): 434–446 (12 pages).
Marcus, George E. (1995): "Ethnography in/of the World System. The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography". Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 24, pp. 95-117. (12 pages)
Pollard, Amy (2009): Field of screams: difficulty and ethnographic fieldwork. Anthropology Matters, 11(2): 1-24. (24 pages)
Rana, Jasmijn (2018): “The Continuous Decolonization of Anthropology: The Case of Muslims in Europe”. Etnofoor, 30(2): 77-82 (6 pages).
Spradley, James P. (1979): “Interviewing an informant”, pp. 55-69 in The ethnographic interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (14 pages) alexlinsker.com
Whyte, W.F. (1943): “Doc and his boys” (excerpt from Street Corner Society, pp. 3-25. (22 pages).