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IMPORTANT, PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND READ! Module outline and reading list document

Key Documents

Link to Epigeum Online Research Integrity Course

AS1 - Ethics Form Template

AS1 - Ethics form Step-by-step Guidance

AS1 - Checklist and some additional info/links

Templates for Participant Information form and Participant Consent form

AS2 Samples

NEW Ethics Form Template

NEW Ethics Guidance

NEW Participant Information and Consent Form Templates

Assessment

Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

Assignment 2 (AS2) 2024/25

Seminar Participation 1 (SP1) 2024/25

Practical 1 (PR1) 2024/25

Week 1: Introduction to the course and to ethnography (2nd October)

Abu-Lughod "Veiled Sentiments" Excerpt

Bourgois "In Search of Respect" Excerpt

Briggs "Never in Anger" Excerpt

Tsing "The Mushroom at the End of the World" Excerpt

Week 1 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Week 2: What kind of knowledge is ethnographic knowledge: postionality, reflexivity, and us (9th October)

Narayan Reading (Essential)

Geertz Reading (Feel free to read this OR Clifford)

Clifford Reading (Feel free to read this OR Geertz)

Week 2 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Geertz's "Notes on a Balinese cockfight" (Extra contextual reading)

Week 2 Questions and Exercises

Week 3: Ethics (16th October)

Harper Reading (Essential)

Scheper-Hughes Reading (Essential)

ASA Reading (Essential)

Teitelbaum Reading (Recommended)

Nancy Sheper-Hughes 2 (Recommended)

Week 5 - Lecture Slides Pre Circulation

Week 5 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Ethical guidelines and practices PPT

Week 4: Participant Observation (23rd October)

Fontein Reading 1 (Essential)

Fontein Reading 2 (Essential)

Malinowski Reading (Highly Recommended)

Okely Reading (Highly Recommended)

Shah Reading (Highly Recommended)

Seminar Question Prompts

Week 7 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Week 5: Interviewing (30th October)

Skinner Reading (Essential)

Hockey and Forsey Reading (Recommended)

Spradley Reading (Recommended)

Week 8 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Interviewing PPT

Week 7: Artful Ethnography: w/Nora Wuttke (13th November)

Taussig Reading (Essential)

EXTRA MATERIAL: Extending Methodology: Other Ways Of Doing Ethnography

Pink Reading (Essential)

Irving Reading (Please read at least ONE of these)

Harper Reading (Please read at least ONE of these)

Rice Reading (Please read at least ONE of these)

Khosravi Reading (Highly Recommended)

SEMINAR ACTIVITY

Week 9 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]

Week 8: Archives, texts and other kinds of data: w/ Bolaji Balogun (20th November)

Lecture Slides pre-circulation

Short Video (Essential Watching)

Essential Reading: Neil Thin

Week 9: Digital Methods (27th November)

Ritter Reading (Essential)

Mohanty et al. Reading (Essential)

Carlson listening (Essential)

Bareither Reading (Highly Recommended)

Roberts and Hernandez Reading (Highly Recommended)

Pink and Morgan Reading (Highly Recommended)

Iris' slides

Week 10: Processing Field Notes and Relating to Theory (4th December)

Hoek Reading (Essential)

Ingold Reading (Essential)

Week 10 - Lecture Recording [FROM LAST YEAR'S MODULE, JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE IF YOU FIND IT USEFUL]