Ethnography Seminar
PGR200: Ethnography Seminar
The Ethnography Seminar is a monthly reading group made up of PhD students and researchers from across the college interested in and actively using the ethnographic method.
Each term is structured around a key issue in ethnographic research and involves reading mongraphs and theoretical texts. Every third seminar is led by an invited speaker using their own research.
The seminar is designed to stimulate cross disciplinary critique and discussion of ethnographic practice in relation to the multidisciplinary context of King’s research environment.
All PhD students, postdoctoral and academic staff are warmly welcome. PhD students and postdoctoral researchers should register via Skills Forge using code PGR200
2011/12 Programme:
Term 1: What is Ethnography?
Seminar 1: Abu-Lughod L. (1986) Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Seminar 2:Gupta A & Ferguson J. (1997) Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Van Maanen J. (2011) Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
Seminar 3: Making field-notes, led by Dr Branwyn Polekett, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Term 2: Activism and the status of social science
Seminar 1: Scheper-Hughes N. (1992) Death without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, Berkeley ; Oxford: University of California Press.
Seminar 2: Ong A & Collier SJ. (2005) Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Scheper-Hughes N. (1995) The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology. Current Anthropology 36: 409-440.
Scheper-Hughes N. (2009) Making anthropology public. Anthropology Today 25: 1-3.
Seminar 3: Framing and bounding the field and its problems, led by Dr Eduardo Ascensao, University of Lisbon.
Term 3: Ethnography as experimentation
Seminar 1: Mol A. (2003) The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. OR
Seminar 2: Clifford J & Marcus GE. (2010) Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Seminar 3: Writing culture, led Laura Speers, King's College London
If you have any further enquiries please email kissdtc@kcl.ac.uk