May 2013
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Finally done with grading!
So now that the grades are in, I do hope that I can start tumbling again. More posts coming soon…
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Scholarly publishing is broken: Is it time to... →
After four months of peer review at a top journal in my field, I was happy to get a revise and resubmit, with great feedback from the anonymous reviewers. Their suggestions improved the article, and I was thrilled when I was able to turn around the revisions in 6 weeks.
I have now been informed that it might take another 4 months before I have a decision on the manuscript. If it is accepted, I...
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April 2013
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“The essential vocation of interpretive anthropology is not to answer our deepest...”
– Clifford Geertz (via onehrtomadness)
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“Anthropology will continue to get a bad rap as long as we anthropologists think...”
– Paul Stoller, this year’s recipient of the Anders Retzius gold medal (for a significant contribution to the field of anthropology)
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“Solitude is never absolute. We are always with someone, even if it is only our...”
– Octavio Paz (via theparisreview)
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“[E]thnographic writing [emerges] from a process of observation of the minutiae...”
– Tobias Hecht, from After Life: An Ethnographic Novel, page 8
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“Each of us embarks on a journey outward into the world and inward into the self....”
– Keith Hart (anthropologist) from “Studying world society as a vocation” (http://thememorybank.co.uk/papers/studying-world-society/)
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March 2013
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thedisassociation asked: Could you recommend a few literary ethnographic readings that you consider essential? Either literary ethnographies or critical readings about the nature of literary ethnography. Thanks.
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“If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that...”
– Ernest Hemingway
In good ethnographic writing, I think this idea applies as well.
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Here is an interview I did on the Bulgarian...
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“To me the world of poetry is a house with thousands of glittering windows. Our...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, Poet (1952~)
The same can be said about a great ethnography.
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Self-immolation as political protest →
An interview with Voice of Russia on the current rash of self-immolations in Bulgaria
hiddinginmybed asked: Hello, I'm Marine. For uni I've got this assignment where I have to study how a writer's mother tongue and feminine condition influence her french writing, and I was going for an african ethnographer but I don't really know where to search. The trick is that it has to be a novel (I think) but I'd really like it to be ethnology related. I was wondering if you knew some...
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“Ultimately literature is nothing but carpentry. Both are very hard work. Writing...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927~) I think the same can be said about writing ethnography.
February 2013
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anthropology notes: The Napoleon Chagnon Wars... →
anthropologynotes:
The Fierce People. That’s what anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon called the indigenous Ya̧nomamö Indians of Venezuela in his 1968 book Ya̧nomamö: The Fierce People. It’s one of the best-selling anthropology texts of all time and is still in wide use.
In the 45 years since the book’s…
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Blackwashing History →
A new column about the memory of communism and the Holocaust in Bulgaria
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“We have to study man, and we must study what concerns him most intimately, that...”
– Bronislaw Malinowski (via kayburry)
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January 2013
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Live fieldnotes →
An interesting blog post about writing live fieldnotes
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain
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