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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…
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…
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…
Resources
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…
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