methods

Sustainability

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the process of negotiating access to people and places is in itself a major source of knowledge about power relations?

Sabine Luning • 03-09-2013

Digitalisation

Liberating visual methods

New adventures have appeared in the field of Anthropology. ‘Liberating!’ students say. Social theory and fieldwork combine in new ways, thanks to contemporary audiovisual practices. A glimpse into a few experiences.

Janine Prins • 04-07-2013

Digitalisation

Intercultural love in Lovina

Masterstudent Cecile Schimmel is doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Her research is on intercultural love relationships, her location Lovina Beach, northern Bali. She applies Visual Ethnography as a method. A report from the field by a visiting lecturer.

Janine Prins • 15-04-2013

Blogs

Anthropologists in the company of gatekeepers

Liberating visual methods

Intercultural love in Lovina