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.

Comments

This essay prefaced three student-authored essays.

Volume

58

Issue

1

pp.

100-103

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