Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical understanding of using correspondence, letters, and postcards in field research: Bass, A. (1987). Translator’s Introduction: L before K. Glossary. from The Post Card. University of Chicago…
Pandian, A. & McLean, S. (2017). Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Duke University Press Duke University Press This volume consists of a series of essays that span various experimental writing techniques in anthropology and the genre of ethnographies…
Notes on a Postcard. from Alegra lab Michael Taussig’s Postcards. from The MIT Press Reader. Special Section on Multimodal Postcards. from American Anthropologist.
The critical role of correspondence and letters in ethnographic research is often underappreciated. Letter writing by anthropologists provides insights into the micropowers of fieldwork and offers closer examinations of methods and research processes. The open and fragmented state of letters…
Letters written from the field that reveal the author’s internal dialogue provide clarity over the impressions, doubts, and discomforts that inevitably accompany fieldwork. In doing so they expose more of the process and struggle of interpretation and writing. Letters also…
Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical understanding of using sketches and drawings in field research: Ballard, Chris. 2013. “The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History.” The Asia Pacific…
I Swear I Saw This : Drawings In Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own UCPTaussig, Michael. 2011. I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Structured around a series of sketches…
Illustrating Anthropology (Supported by The Royal Anthropological Institute)
Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical understanding of using maps and mapmaking in field research: If you are interested in reading a selection of these readings or if you are an instructor…
