Social Anthropological Methods Course Structure 2018

Teacher: Paula Uimonen

Date Time Room Content

Lecture 1: Thinking through the field
Wed 10-12 B600 Paula Uimonen
5/9 - Borneman & Hammoudi (2009). Being There: A Fieldwork Encounter and
the Making of Truth.
-Coleman & Collins (2006). Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context
in Anthropology.
-Nader (2011). Ethnography as theory

Lecture 2: Fieldwork in practice

Wed 10-12 B600 Paula Uimonen
12/9 - Hammersley & Atkinson (2003). Ethnography, Principles in Practice.

Seminar 1: Essentials of fieldwork

Wed 10-12 B600 Assignment: methods paper (3-4 pages), submission Mondo 25/9 at 09:00
26/9 - Borneman & Hammoudi (2009). Being There: A Fieldwork Encounter and
the Making of Truth
-Coleman & Collins (2006). Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context
in Anthropology.
-Hammersley & Atkinson (2003). Ethnography, Principles in Practice
-Nader (2011). Ethnography as theory

13-15 B600 Lecture 3: Online & visual methods

Paula Uimonen
-Coleman & Collins. (2006). Locating the Field: Ch 6
-Favero (2013). Picturing Life-Worlds in the City

Wed 10-12 B600 Lecture 4: Urban methods

3/10 Guest lecturer: Simon Johansson
-Coleman & Collins. (2006). Locating the Field: Ch 2,3, 9

13-15 B600 Seminar 2: Research design

Assignment: outline of fieldwork project with initial research questions and
planned methods (2-3 pages), submission Mondo 2/10 at 09:00

Mon All Off Fieldwork in Stockholm

8/10 week campus
-Fri
12/10
Tue 10-12 B600 Seminar 3: Reflections on fieldwork
16/10 -Rabinow, Paul 1971/2007. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco.

Tue 9-17 B658 Oral Exam (30 minutes/person) or Written Exam (Mondo)
23/10