Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research

'This compelling volume charts new approaches, from sensory ethnography to walking as method, to challenge settled norms and unsettle the kinds of contributions ethnography can make to the world.' -- Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine, USA.

'A brilliant companion for anyone in search for novel approaches in ethnography. Theoretically well founded and methodologically inventive it will inspire scholars who team up with professionals in arts and culture.' -- Jonas Frykman. Professor of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden.

'This volume richly reflects the variety of work being done and encouraged there and advances particularly the many ways ethnography is being 'twisted' true to its past spirit and investment in understanding present futures.' -- George E. Marcus, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA.

What happens when ethnography, the classic method and mode of knowledge dissemination for anthropology, migrates across domains, to other academic fields as well as whole other areas of creative, clinical, or educational practice? This compelling volume tracks the twists and turns of ethnographic research as it wends its way through challenging social and political arenas as diverse as migrant resettlement and musical composition, and as it inspires collaboration between observer and observed, breaking down this dichotomy while also fusing process with product. The volume charts new approaches, from sensory ethnography to walking as method, to challenge settled norms and unsettle the kinds of contributions ethnography can make to the world.
Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine, USA.

A brilliant companion for anyone in search for novel approaches in ethnography. Theoretically well founded and methodologically inventive it will inspire scholars who team up with professionals in arts and culture.
Jonas Frykman. Professor of Ethnology, Lund University, Sweden.

In the paradigm of multi-sited ethnography research of the 1990s, responsive to globalization, I evoked ‘circumstantial activism’ arising as a puzzle of political commitment and more performative making in the complex relations of any individually pursued ethnographic research project. Nowadays, we are amidst a rich evolution of this ‘activism’ tendency in all kinds of experiments that blend fieldwork, performance, new technological affordances, and above all the forging of diverse collaborations in participation. This volume richly reflects the variety of work being done and encouraged there and advances particularly the many ways ethnography is being 'twisted' true to its past spirit and investment in understanding present futures.

George E. Marcus, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA.