Journal for Ethnographic Research
Get PDF: Patrick McCartney. 2018. Reflections on the Imagining Sanskrit Land Project. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kyoto University psdmccartney@gmail.com It has been a bit over two years since I was in the small hamlet of Jhiri. So, these ‘Notes from the Field’ are a little dusty. However, they are a reflection on my time before, […]
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Get PDF: Chang, Abdul Haque. 2017. Of Gutka Chewing Piety and the Economic Exploitation of Fishermen of the Indus Delta in Pakistan. Global Ethnographic. Abdul Haque Chang haq.chang@gmail.com University of Texas at Austin Abstract This paper discusses how the religious connotations of gutka chewing by poor fishermen render the practice a useful metaphor for their ambiguous social and economic position […]
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Speakers Dr Declan Kuch, The University of South Wales I’m a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at UNSW. As a sociologist of science and technology, my research is motivated by the problem of how to reconcile public values with economic democracy in an era characterized by environmental constraints and an obsession with innovation. My research covers climate change, […]
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Part I Part II Part III Speakers Professor Lesley Head, The University of Melbourne I am a geographer whose research examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material. That is, I want to understand how humans have physically changed earth’s systems, how we think about our place in nature, and how these two things are connected. In recent years […]
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Get PDF: McCartney, Patrick. 2017. Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney Visiting Fellow, Australian National University psdmccartney@gmail.com Abstract This article explores an under-appreciated relation between the quotidian practices of Western yoga practitioners and the global agenda of Hindu supremacism. It demonstrates how yoga, or rather, the yoga body, […]
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Get PDF: Daniela Vavrova. 2017. River Nomads. Global Ethnographic. Eric Komlavi Hahonou (Director and Producer) with the participation of Lotte Pelckmans. Duration 42 minutes, spoken languages: Hausa, Zarma, subtitles: French, English. Komlavi Consult (Production), 2016. Daniela Vavrova The Cairns Institute and College of Arts Society and Education James Cook University daniela.vavrova@jcu.edu.au “All people here came from somewhere else”. […]
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Get PDF: Terry Stocker. 2017. Children, Mirror Neurons and Bullfights. Global Ethnographic. Terry Stocker Independent scholar stockerterry@hotmail.com Children and childhood have long been studied in anthropology and have been central to the overall development of the discipline, as demonstrated by the fact that Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the best-selling books in anthropology. […]
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Get PDF: Palmer, Christian. 2017. The Brazilian Hawaii: Surf Culture, Tourism, and the Construction of Place. Global Ethnographic. Christian Palmer Windward Community College ctpalmer@hawaii.edu Abstract This article describes how ideas of Hawaii were introduced and circulated in Brazil through surf culture, military travel and tourism, and the importance of these ideas in establishing a positive tropical identity in opposition […]
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Get PDF: Miller, Faye. 2017. When Immersive Journalism Met Open Ethnography. Global Ethnographic. Faye Miller University of Canberra It’s a rare occasion when a large group of documentary enthusiasts, filmmakers, journalists, popular writers and academic researchers (including ethnographers) are brought together in the same room: an eclectic mix of people who share a common appreciation (or at least curiosity) for […]
Read moreBook reviewed: Lancy, DF 2014, The anthropology of childhood: Cherubs, chattel, changelings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Reviewer: Nirmala Jayaraman How is culture, which David F. Lancy describes in his book, The Anthropology of Childhood, as a process of rituals and behaviors taught by adults or learned by children (372 – 373), influential to the individual? Lancy’s book explores this topic […]
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