Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 4-2-2024
Publication Title
Journal of Northwest Anthropology
Department
Sociology & Anthropology
Abstract
This brief essay describes programming at the University
of Puget Sound that allows undergraduate students to pursue
independent ethnographic research projects. This programming
undergirds all three of the subsequent student essays included in this
issue. The mission of this programming is to encourage “experiential
learning”—an objective that is aligned (and perhaps derivative)
of the methodological toolkit long deployed by anthropological
ethnographers. The essay describes the pedagogic goals that I
have been able to integrate into the supervision of this experiential
programming, and also discusses how we have sought to balance
independently-derived student research interests with the broader
research agendas codified in the Ethnographic Survey of Rural
Cascadia (ESRC). The essay seeks to make useful observations about
how one might teach ethnography, and about how, via collaboration
and in the context of teaching this research method, undergraduate
ethnographic novices might usefully contribute to our collective
scholarly understanding of the human condition.
Volume
58
Issue
1
pp.
100-103
Citation
https://www.northwestanthropology.com
Comments
This essay prefaced three student-authored essays.