Maps have been used in ethnographic field research since the emergence of modern ethnographic filed research. Malinowski included “extensive maps, plans and diagrams, illustrating ownership in garden land, hunting and fishing privileges” as one of “the more fundamental documents…
Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges, has a short story titled On Exactitude of Science that beautifully speaks to the dilemma of maps: …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province…
Throughout fieldwork, ethnographers must constantly interpret their observations and translate their experiences into various forms of documentation, including written notes, audiovisual recordings, sketches, tables, surveys, and diaries. However, these raw materials are typically transformed into a more structured presentation that…
Although fieldnotes typically consist of written notes, anthropologists often include sketches and drawings in their fieldwork notebooks. These sketches can range from simple shapes and stick figures to artistically complex naturalist-realist paintings (Bray, 2015). Using drawings and sketches as a…
During his ethnographic field research in Indonesia, Andrew Causey, an anthropologist-artist, developed a hobby of drawing and painting insects (Causey 2012). This leisure activity was enjoyable and provided a break from his research. However, it also turned out to be…
