Ethnography: Fieldwork and Writing in Antropology (ANTH 468)

2025 Spring
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Anthropology(ANTH)
3
6
Kristen Sarah Biehl Öztuzcu kristenb@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
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Seminar,
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CONTENT

Ethnography has been the main method of research and writing in anthropology. This course provides an in-depth reading of classical and contemporary ethnographies addressing a wide range of theoretical and political questions regarding the ethnographic experience and text.

OBJECTIVE

To read and discuss ethnographies from different parts of the world, to analyze different modes of anthropological writing, and to discuss the contributions as well as limitations of anthropological research and writing.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES


1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others.

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice.

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself.

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means.

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.


1. Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences.

2. Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society.

3. Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information.


1. Demonstrate an understanding of the multiple methodologies and interpret different approaches, concepts, and theoretical legacies in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies.

2. Identify interconnections of knowledge within and across the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, literature, visual studies, philosophy, and geography.

3. Cultivate a critical approach to the study of culture, articulating the relations between culture, power, and history; exploring cultural diversity and socio-cultural change at the local, national and global level; and exploring the corresponding demands for rights and social justice.

4. With the use of appropriate technologies, be able to present advanced oral and written evaluations of developments in the realm of cultural production, consumption, and representation.

RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS

Readings

Abu-Lughod, Lila, Berkeley, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, University of California Press, Berkeley
el-Haj, Nadia Abu, Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in the Israeli Colonial-National Project, University of Chicago Press
Catherine Lutz, Boston, Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century, Beacon Press, Boston
Piot, Charles, Chicago and London, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
Marjorie Shostak, New York, Nisa: The Life and Words of s !Kung Woman, Vintage Books, New York
Anna Lowenthaupt Tsing, New Jersey, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place, Princeton University Press, New Jersey