CMN 3103 Study Guide - Final Guide: George E. Marcus, Ethnographic Film, Hugh Gusterson
15 Apr 2018
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Lifetime achievement award from the royal society of canada for psychological anthropology. Fieldwork among canadian inuit, alaskan inupiat and siberian yupik. Known internationally as an early pioneer of autoethnographic and humanistic approaches. Her book never in anger considered a foundational text for students learning about method, methodology, writing and the canadian arctic. Lecturer in the anthropology dept at york university. Research focuses on the links between photography, memory, identity in relation to issues of migration (particularly by boat) Also focuses on linkages between media (primary photojournalism) and memory. Documented his fieldwork experiences among trobriand islanders in the south pacific during ww1. One of the 1st anthropologists to advocate for the use and importance of participant observation. Defines it as an intensive, long-term engagement with one group of people in a single location. Drew attention to the complex subjective aspects of ethnography and ethnographic writing to challenge notions of scientific truths.
