WHERE IS ETHNOGRAPHY?

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"Why So Few Ethnographies?

June 1, 2011, 3:55 pm

By Nigel Thrift

Ethnography is one of the standard research tools used by academics in the social sciences and humanities nowadays. Surprising then that academia often seems remarkably under-studied in ethnographic terms. One would have thought that universities would be fertile ground for ethnographers but there are 

surprisingly few studies available that I know of."

not so in London now.

Also in thirties - through seventies in Europe we had enography at the university.

What might have happened?

1.Splash impact of denying anthropology that shares the subject of studies namely human ethos,while ethnography looks at the whole bio-ethos.( to blame someone for the illegal human experiments of WWII)

2. Bias that when we address single questions of sciences, thye no more need to get the whole of it, namely ethos, is not there ( bias against the holistic and systemic view of science subject) That is not true at Harvard Uni or any other respected place. They are about to get it from the modern peasant that gets these getting in the morning into the sunrise on the farm. These are different view on the subject matter and they will be back even as if rush for gold.

3.It is not a surprise that ethnography strength when it was founded at the Columbia University is in the method of aproaching the subject matter; with the corresponding meta-theoretical philosophical theory. The last one not only philosophy can benefit from, the single sciences need these to polish town approach or use like in case of bio-engineering - seemingly deals with replicating the best of the nature for the robotic wishes, bionic super women

and bio-sensors but does not go well into the world without understanding ethos, as the applications be 'in the sky' but not really flying. There is something interesting how ethnographic method lends itself to other sciences that use the filed work - whenever University works from that stand point surely needs at least ethnographical method. It is somewhat evenemental( excepted) while not readily realized benefit in studying ethnography; not getting into the curriculum and if there - not picked up by the students (that is in USA; In London it is now mandatory; we will win as we get the true believers before London finishes its bid on ethnography)

4.other bias that Americans love when they are wrong is not to take any course in college that is not obviously necessary; but fault of not informing when ethnography applies is ion the academic advisers - they do not know,. About the time to educate self.

There is more good staff to understand how to work the filed - any bio-field that is with human in it.

Where are etnographical studies today ( expected by me there):

1. Sorbone, that's Paris.

I got blocked; good-havens, maybe they are communists in turn taking order with its consequences.

 but I got that it might be bertween tehse subjects; see that they have GEOGRAPHY!:

 

Human Sciences

Geography

History

The Institute for Research on Modern Western Civilization (IRCOM)

Philosophy and Sociology

Applied Human Sciences (ISHA)

2. Warsaw, that is small Paris -interesting initiatives at cross sciences to ethnography but tin on ethnography itself;lets follow them up for any change.

Visegrad Grant - Documentary and Anthropological Filmmaking 

 

Documentary and Anthropological Filmmaking

CEU Summer University in Budapest

4 July - 22 July, 2011 

With the support of the Visegrad Fund  

The course provides a state-of-the-art training for social scientists interested in filmmaking. It focuses on cross-cultural ethnographically informed filmmaking, combining an intensive three weeks training in practical filmmaking with discussions on history, genres, ethics and theories of visuality. Taught by academics and film professionals with expertise in visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, it combines a practical, hands-on camera training with a series of theoretical sessions and masterclasses. This series of graduate summer schools sponsored by the Visegrad Fund is an initiative of four academic institutions and professional organizations from Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland.

The Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw is the partner of the project. 

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 Project Sniatyn Dis / Continued: Memory of Place and Displaced Memories in Official Representations and Individual Experiences  

Within the framework of Geschichtswerkstatt Europa Programme Paths of Remembrance, founded by the EVZ Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, 

our freshers participate in an interdisciplinary project that focuses

 on memory and past experiences of the town of Sniatyn (Ukraine). 

Sniatyn Dis / Continued project is coordinated by the Center 

for Urban History of East Central Europe, in cooperation with 

nstitute of History Polish Academy of Sciences and Lviv Polytechnic.

For more details see

Exhibition SCHMITZLER'S PEOPLE. THE PRE-WAR INHABITANTS OF ŚNIATYŃ 

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SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST FOR VISITING PROFESSORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW (2009-2014)

Scholarships are awarded for the duration of stay at the University of Warsaw, between 1 and 5 months in the total amount of 30 000 PLN gross for foreign visiting professors. Under the awarded scholarship, the visiting professor shall be employed by the Institution's organization unit which issued an opinion on his/her scholarship application.

More... 

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The Lane Kirkland Scholarship Program - - an open competition for candidates from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, as well as Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for the Lane Kirkland Scholarships. 

Founder - the Polish-American Freedom Foundation

Program Administrator - Polish — U.S. Fulbright Commission 

 This project (translation of the website) has been funded with 

support from the European Commission.  

3. Leinden,not NJ; Netherlands

 Missed,these are the closest:

•Environmental Anthropology and Development Sociology »

•Europaeum programme European History and Civilisation: Leiden-Oxford-Paris Programme »

•European and International Business Law (Advanced) »

•European Expansion and Globalisation/Colonial and Global History »

•European Expansion and Globalisation/Colonial and Global History (research) »"

4. African Universities

 PLEASE SEEK THEM OUT;I DO NOT KNOW HOW GOOD THEY ARE BUT I EXPECT IT BY  LOCALIZATION,ONE OF THE ISSUE OF ETNOGRAPHY

5. Island University

6. Ausies like it at.......- LIKEWISE

7.Moscow University has anthropology with etnography asaminor but I found a lot of related material that apolies to cross- science not just under biology and agriculture but so called strict or hard sciences taht we neglect readily ( sure out associates that graduated from this university are good if not better thinker;I am upset about and only until the revolution income:

Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics

SunSITE

Department of Algorithmic Languages

Department of Computational Methods

Department of Mathematical Cybernetics

Department of Operations Research

Department of quantum informatics

 SEE, AMERICANS,YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE THIS AS A WORD IN 

THE DICTIONARY;WHO IS KIDDING WHOM?

 ( WARSAW HAS PLENTY OF INFORMATICS BOTH AT THE THE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY AS HUMANITY WITH NO BREAK DURING COMMUNIST TIME; AND MORE POLES ARE NOW ROCKING THE FIVU THAN AMERICANS,OR AMERICANS ARE OBLIVIOUS TO GREAT VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE)

Department of Systems Analysis

Department of System Programming

Department of Mathematical Physics

Department of Automation for Scientific Research

Department of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Control Processes

Graphics and Media Laboratory

8. University of Michigan:- has strong policy background,similarly toUPenn.

but does not see when the ethnography falls in either as subject or method.

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Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies

Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy 

International Policy Center