Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Experimental Futures)

Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributorswho come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditionsenliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract disembodied exercise. Rather they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data or working with smartphones sound recordings and social media as analytic devices the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers. Contributors. Patricia Alvarez Astacio Andrea Ballestero Ivan da Costa Marques Steffen Dalsgaard Endre Dnyi Marisol de la Cadena Marianne de Laet Carolina Domnguez Guzmn Rachel Douglas-Jones Clment Drano Joseph Dumit Melanie Ford Lemus Elaine Gan Oliver Human Alberto Corsn Jimnez Graham M. Jones Trine Mygind Korsby Justine Laurent James Maguire George E. Marcus Annemarie Mol Sarah Pink Els Roding Markus Rudolfi Ulrike Scholtes Anthony Stavrianakis Lucy Suchman Katie Ulrich Helen Verran Else Vogel Antonia Walford Karen Waltorp Laura Watts Brit Ross Winthereik