Doing Ethnography and History of Science of Unformed Objects

[Tomás Sánchez Criado]

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De: Britt Dahlberg <britt.d...@gmail.com>

Asunto: Online Series: Doing Ethnography and History of Science of Unformed Objects

Fecha: 15 de julio de 2013 20:06:43 GMT+02:00

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**Check out this month's discussion series on How Ethnographies of Science take shape - at the Society for Cultural Anthropology's Field Notes Series:

Studying Unformed Objects: Reflections on how ethnographies of science and process take shape

http://production.culanth.org/fieldsights/349-field-notes-in-july-studying-unformed-objects-reflections-on-how-ethnographies-of-science-and-process-take-shape

In July’s Field Notes, four writers reflect on their experiences carrying out ethnographies of not-quite-formed objects, or in other words, on the joint ‘taking-shape’ of their subjects and projects.

Sign on and join in - post reflections on your own projects - how have they come together, pulled apart, when does the focus - what your project is about - become clear, diffuse, during your own work?

As a prompt, we put two questions in conversation: 

(1) How does an ethnographic project’s focus take shape? (be it in contemplative stages, pilot work, during grant-writing, in the midst of fieldwork, or in reflection and writing)?

and,  

(2) What does it look like to conduct ethnographies of people’s efforts (successful or not) to pull together certain issues or problems as a cohesive topic for scientific investigation and public action? 

In short, what does it look and feel like to study the “coming-into-being” [1] of objects, be they scientific, medical, or other, or to study the failures to quite do so?

-- 
Britt Dahlberg
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania

bri...@sas.upenn.edu

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/dahlberg