Mo 6/7 – Introduction to the course, objectives, project, and assessment
Tu 6/8 – Reading Discussion: What is Anthropological Fieldwork? What is Ethnography?
Nelson, Katie. 2019. “Chapter 1-Introduction to Anthropology” in Perspectives: An Open
Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition, Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle
de González, and Thomas McIlwraith. Washington DC: American Anthropological
Association. Pp. 4-28.
Nelson, Katie. 2019. “Chapter 3-Doing Fieldwork ” in Perspectives: An Open
Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition, Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle
de González, and Thomas McIlwraith. Washington DC: American Anthropological
Association. Pp. 45-69.
Cochrane, Logan. 2019. “Chapter 18-Seeing Like an Anthropologist: Anthropology in Practice”
in Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition, Edited by
Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González, and Thomas McIlwraith. Washington DC:
American Anthropological Association. Pp. 444-455.
Recommended Readings & Resources:
Sluka, Jeffrey S., Antonious C. G. M. Robben. 2012. “Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology An Introduction” in Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, 2nd Edition,
Edited by Antonious C.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey S. Sluka. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.
Digital Resources:
W 6/9- Qualitative Research, The Toolkit for the Ethnographic Study of Space (Readings Discussion and Mini-Workshop), and Writing Fieldnotes
Isaacs, Anton N. 2014. “An overview of Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health” International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 4(4): 318-323.
Low, Setha, Troy Simpson, and Suzanne Scheld. 2019. Toolkit for the Ethnographic Study of Space (TESS), Public Space Research Group, Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY.
Resources:
Recommended Reading:
LeCompte, Margaret Diane and Jean J. Schensul. 2010. “Chapter 4: An Overview of Research
Design” in Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, New
York: Altamira Press. Pp. 87-126.
Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 2011. “Chapter 1- Fieldnotes in
Ethnographic Research” and “Chapter 2- In The Field: Participating, Observing, and
Jotting Notes” in Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition. Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press.
Th 6/10 – Field Visit to Near Lehman College, Bronx (Meet here at 12 PM).
Week #2: From theory to practice: Using qualitative Analysis Software Packages, Data Collection Techniques, and Analyzing Data (I)
A- What is Ethnography? A few examples in Food, Economy, Health and Migration
B- Interviews (I)
C- PhotoVoice
Mo 6/14 – Recap – Qualitative Research // Readings Discussion – A few examples in Food, Economy, Health, Migration and PhotoVoice
Marte, Lidia. 2011. “Afro-Diasporic Seasonings: Food Routes and Dominican Place- Making in New York City” Food, Culture, and Society, 14(2): 181-204.
Fuster, Melissa. 2017. “We like Fried Things”: Negotiating Health and Taste among Hispanic Caribbean Communities in New York City“ Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 56(2):
124-138
Lardeau, M.P., G. Healey, and J. Ford. 2011. “The use of Photovoice to document and characterize the food security of users of community food programs in Iqaluit, Nunavut”
Rural and Remote Health, 11(1680), online journal.
Recommended Readings:
Gálvez, Alyshia. 2018. “Introduction” in Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and The
Destruction of Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 1-26
Mintz, Sidney W. and Christine M. DuBois. “The Anthropology of Food and Eating,” Annual
Review of Anthropology, 311(1): 99-119.
Riley, Kathleen C. and Jillian R. Cavanaugh. 2017. “Chapter 10: Food Talk: Studying Foodways
and Language in Use Together,” in Food Culture: Anthropology, Linguistics, and Food
Studies. Edited by Janet Chrzan and John Brett. New York: Berghahn
Valera, Pamela, Jill Gallin, Dawn Schuck & Nakisha Davis. 2009. “Trying to Eat Healthy” -A
Photovoice Study About Women’s Access to Healthy Food in New York City” Affilia:
Journal of Women and Social Work, 24(3): 300-314.
Roberts, Elizabeth F.S. 2017. ‘What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in
Mexico City.’ Cultural Anthropology, 32(4): 592–619.
Fuster, Melissa, Ellen Messer, Robert F. Houser, Hedi Deman, Patricia Palma del Fulladosa and
Odilia I. Bermúdez. 2013. “Local Notions of Healthy Eating and National Dietary
Guidelines: A Comparison in Vulnerable Salvadoran Communities,” Food and
Foodways, (21): 288-314.
Cooper, C. M., & Yarbrough, S. P. 2010. “Tell me—show me: Using combined focus group and
photovoice methods to gain an understanding of health issues in rural Guatemala.”
Qualitative Health Research, 20(5): 644-653.
Valera, Pamela, Jill Gallin, Dawn Schuck & Nakisha Davis. 2009. “Trying to Eat Healthy” -A
Photovoice Study About Women’s Access to Healthy Food in New York City” Affilia:
Journal of Women and Social Work, 24(3): 300-314.
Stevenson, E. G., Greene, L. E., Maes, K. C., Ambelu, A., Tesfaye, Y. A., Rheingans, R., &
Hadley, C. 2012. “Water insecurity in 3 dimensions: an anthropological perspective on
water and women’s psychosocial distress in Ethiopia”. Social science & medicine, 75(2):
392-400.
Belasco, Warren. 2008. “Convenience: The Global Food Chain,” in Food: The Key Concepts.
New York: Berg. Pp. 55-77.
Readings Mentioned in Class:
Candelario, Ginneta E.B. 2007. “Chapter 4: “They Are Taken Into Account For Their Opinions”: Making Community and Displaying Identity At A Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City” in Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops. Durham: Duke University Press. Pp. 177-221.
Tu 6/15 – Collecting Ethnographic Data & Interviews
LeCompte, Margaret Diane and Jean J. Schensul. 2010. “Chapter 6: Collecting Ethnographic Data” in Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, New
York: Altamira Press. Pp. 173-193.
Resources:
Documentary: ¡Salud! Myths and Realities of Mexican Immigrant Health (2017) Directed by Alyshia Gálvez & David S. Schwittek
W 6/16 – Food Insecurity in the Bronx, and Introduction to Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software – ATLAS.ti
- Read “The Bronx and Queens are Crying out for Help” by Catalina Cruz and Michael Blake, The New York Times, June 9, 2020.
- Read “Karen Washington: It’s Not a Food Desert, it’s Food Apartheid” by Anna Brones, in Guernica, May 7, 2018.
- Read NY Food 20/20, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. (I posted the wrong link, it’s ok if you read the wrong one- still relevant!)
- Watch Coding Data- ALTAS.ti 9
IN CLASS:
- Discussion of Food Insecurity in the Bronx
- Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis
- In class: Download the ATLAS.ti Trial Version (Free)
Digital Resources:
https://atlasti.com/product/what-is-atlas-ti/
https://atlasti.com/video-tutorials/atlas-ti-9-videos/
Additional Resource:
Food Insecurity Resources and Readings
Th 6/17 – No Class
Week #3: From theory to practice: Using qualitative Analysis Software Packages, Data Collection Techniques, and Analyzing Data-Coding (II)
A- Creating an interview schedule
B- Transcribing Interviews
C- Coding Interviews
Mo 6/21 – Review – Using Data Analysis Software ATLAS.ti & Coding (Alyshia)
- Export interviews into ATLAS.ti
- Exploring the software, learning the basics, and practicing with interviews
- Questions, troubleshooting, coding interviews, and images.
- Creating an interview schedule
Additional Resource: Interview Schedule Sample Template (University of Hawaii)
Recommended Reading:
LeCompte, Margaret Diane and Jean J. Schensul. 2013. “Chapter 1: Why Are Analysis and Interpretation necessary?” and “Chapter 3: Tidying Up, Cataloguing, and Creating Data Inventories” in Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, New York: Altamira Press. Pp. 1-26; 51-64.
Tu 6/22 – Analyzing Data: What can we do with this information? – Readings Discussion and Data Analysis/Interpretation
LeCompte, Margaret Diane and Jean J. Schensul. 2013. “Chapter 5: Ways to Begin Analysis” in
Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, New
York: Altamira Press. Pp. 79-109.
LeCompte, Margaret Diane and Jean J. Schensul. 2010. “Data Analysis: How Ethnographers Make Sense of Their Data” in Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, New York: Altamira Press. Pp. 195-226.
W 6/23 – Oral History//Readings Discussion
Thompson, Paul. 2006. “The Voice of the Past: Oral History” in The Oral History Reader, Second Edition, Edited by Robert Perks & Alistair Thomson. New York: Routledge, Pp. 25-31.
Hionidou, Violetta. 2011. “What do starving people eat? The case of Greece through oral history” Continuity and Change, 26(1): 113-134.
Th 6/24 – No Class
Week #4: “Leaving the field”, final reflections, and returning to the community
A- Preparation of analysis for the community
B- Engaging participants and communicating results
C- Preparing final reports for the Principal Investigator (PI)
D- Reflections on the fieldwork (fieldschool) experience and wrap-up.
E- Engagement with anthropology as a field of practice – and social change.
M 6/28 – Interview Coding Exercise Due//Integrating Communities & Ethnographic research
Gravlee, C., Szurek, S., & Mitchell, M. 2015. “Integrating Methods Training and Community-Based Participatory Research : The NSF-Supported Ethnographic Fieldschool in Tallahassee, Florida”
Practicing Anthropology,37(4), 4-8.
Jessee, N., K. Collum, & Gragg, R. 2015. “Community-Based Participatory Research: Challenging “Lone Ethnographer” Anthropology in Community and Classroom” Practicing Anthropology, 37(4), 9-13.
Tu 6/29- “Native” Ethnographer, Positionality, & Preparing the Final Reflections on Field-school experience//Readings Discussion
Limón, José. 1991. “Representation, Ethnicity, and the Precursory Ethnography: Notes of a Native Anthropologist” in Recapturing Anthropology, Edited by Richard Fox. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, Pp. 115-136.
Zeb Mughal, Muhammad Aurang. 2015. “Being and becoming native: a methodological enquiry into doing anthropology at home” Anthropological Notebooks, 21(1): 121-132.
Recommended Reading:
Borofski, Robert. 2019. “Chapter 19-Public Anthropology” in Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition, Edited by Nina Brown, Laura Tubelle de González, and Thomas McIlwraith. Washington DC: American Anthropological Association. Pp. 456-488.
W 6/30 – Last Day of Class – Presentation with Dr. Karen Florez, Assistant Professor at the CUNY School of Public Health, and PI – “Social Network of Mexican Americans”
Fr 7/2 – Final Reflection Due
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