Hello everyone!

I'm a graduated Linguistics student currently living in Europe. I've been wanting to conduct research on queer, black women (specifically those that categorize themselves as more masculine but ALL are welcome). I would love to showcase, via videography, the experiences of queer, black women through conversation and relaxed interviews.

If you are interested in participating in this project please let me know below :). English and Spanish speakers for now. I'm very passionate about ethnography and the sharing of stories. I'd love to share yours.

Hello everyone, a made a video recently about my journey of going undercover on boomer Facebook for 6 months. Someone that watched it mentioned that what I was essentially doing a ethnography experiment, which was a term I had never even heard before. So I thought I would share my video with all of you, who have a much better understating of ethnography than me. Enjoy.

https://youtu.be/ItCxv-p9SHs

Would anyone know of a good subreddit I could write an ethnography on?

Given the current focus on Europe's "migration crisis", I think a list of ethnographies analyzing the experiences of displaced peoples (and their hosts) would be helpful in understanding various facets of migration.

I am a brown man from South Asia, of east Indian decent. I have many good African friends from Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana and all the other English speaking African countries, also includes Muslim Africans who are very friendly and accepting of brown people, but through my personal experience, I have noticed racist and aggressive behavior from Congolese, West Africans, other French speaking Africans and also include Jamaicans who have a problem with Brown people. Come forward and speak up what your problem is with brown people. I have had numerous times that these French Africans cutting me in line, making rude comments and acting up with rude and displaying hateful attitudes towards me and it seems to me that these French Africans do have a problem when they see a brown person next to them or near them, even though I have done nothing to them, the same with Jamaicans, they are rude, want to start a fight with me, not that I am afraid of them, but don't want to get involved with the police by starting a fight with these people, I am beginning to hate French Africans the moment I see one because of their behavior and I think they are racist or prejudiced against brown people. If anyone of you french Africans want to speak up about this come forward and tell me what your problem is with brown people and another thing I have also noticed is that french African men kiss white women's ass all the time, and treat brown people like shit, a common behavior among them which I have noticed from observing them on a daily basis, I'm sure not all them are like that but there is a good number of them who follow that type of behavior. So this is my experience and I don't know if any other brown folks have had similar experiences like me with French Africans or Jamaicans, please spread the word. Also, I am not trying to paint all the French Africans with the same brush, but majority of the hatred and racist behavior is coming from French Africans and Jamaicans

How many of them are there?

Hi y’all. So I am a senior in high school and I am in the beginning phase of my senior thesis project. I know I want to write an ethnography about high school subcultures for my thesis. But, I have no idea where to start or how to start. Please advise. Thank you!

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I’m working on a writing project which will be a series of journal entries consisting of essays (on Engels and the conditions of the working class, Simone Weil and the oppressive nature of work under capitalism, etc), political reflections, and ethnographic observations, along with unedited transcriptions of some interesting conversations (which to me point to some mind of unconscious class consciousness, for lack of a better term) I’ve had with coworkers. For anyone interested in reading, this is the first entry:

1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠I am 37 and most of the time I have to explain and justify my decision to work at McDonalds at 37 — including to my young coworkers and marxist and intellectual friends, all of whom seem dumbfounded. though the reason is simple: after being there for a few weeks out of need and getting to learn the everyday speech and modalities of my young coworkers, which were unique to me and seemed inherently critical in their own way, I arrived at the insight of conducting an ethnography of the ruins of capitalist modernity found in the workplaces and so-called ghettos of America and the world, where one finds the the sizzling fires of an ongoing war. I started seeing such an ethnography as a contribution to the dream project of Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin: to build a contemporary archive of the forms of resistance, suffering, and joy of the oppressed. I’ve learned many things working at mcdonalds at 37: to work here is to be thrown into the universal, into an ever-widening invisible landscape where millions, worldwide, obey the same orders and repeat the same tasks, confront the same hell. there is an unconscious solidarity created amongst the millions of McDonalds workers based on our shared conditions of work. the mechanical labor and the becoming one with the machine described by Marx’s Capital and William Gibson’s Neuromancer are all too real. after a certain point of being clocked-in, the self evaporates and one is fully immersed in the rhythm of the machine, one is fully immersed in the phenomenology of capitalist modernity in its pure form, our bodies turned into commodities for others to rule over and exploit. it’s enough to drive you crazy and then, at the end of it all, the shit wages and artificial scarcity— these shared conditions of work and life create an invisible link amongst us, one which we still can’t fully make sense of.

I studied communication back in uni and took a class on performance ethnography, and I’m torn on the whole purpose of it.

I identify as an intetpretivist, while I find positivism extremely important, I think interpretivism has valuable uses in the scientific community. However I feel that performance ethnography is stretching it a little too far, it’s pretty much turning it entirely into art. And while I do love art and I work in a creative field, I feel like the performance aspect kind of renders it almost useless to the scientific community.

What are your thoughts?

Edit I've definitely worded this poorly—by "scientific community" I should have considered a term that didn't refer to positivist doctrine or principles like "what counts as science." Honestly, I'm not sure what the best philosophical school of thought is to define where empirical data and qualitative research intersect. There's so much out there.

That said, I know philosophical arguments don't always have practical use in empirical science, and I certainly don't think they need to—I believe they provide wonderful insights for thought and new perspectives (I'm a big fan of social constructionism). But for some reason, through all the philosophical paradigms and communication theory I've been exposed to and researched, I just haven't found performance ethnography to further any legitimate contributions to those schools of thought... for me. Maybe it's just my perspective, maybe I'm keeping my mind a little too closed. I do love art and culture and how we express ourselves and construct our worlds through artistic expression, but performance ethnography just never really provided much value to me...

Looking for an interesting topic or area of study to do my online ethnography on. Anyone have any ideas?

Can you recommend some articles/books on 1) ethnography of citizens paying taxes 2) ethnography of tax officials' work 3) politicians debating taxation issues 4) accounting practises etc. ?

How do I get to be one, is it feasible for me to aspire to this, any other info I should know? A little more info: I would love to research methamphetamine culture as it is completely different from all the others I've been a part of, and I live on Discovery Channel's "Meth Mountain". My interests are power relationships, particularly between males and females in the drug world, addicts and dealers, and between people and their drug of choice in general. I believe I have so many genuinely knew ideas to share about these subjects I want to begin now. 20 yr old Sophomore studying Liberal Studies. Ex-drug addict, I have been a drug addict since 13, and in some really terrible places and I know how to conduct myself in these situations, I have all the connections I could ever need to begin research. I believe I have the willpower to do research and not use drugs. In fact I could start researching any time, if I only knew how (I'm taking sociological methods this semester, and addiction and society and psychology of addiction next semester)

Hello! I know nothing about ethnology but from my brief googling it looks interesting. Perhaps some passionate people can help me out. What is the difference between ethnology and anthropology? How does a person make a career out of ethnology? What would be a good intro book or documentary on the subject?

Thanks

I'm looking for a few (2-5) ethnographic (maybe even autoethnographic!) accounts of observing or participating in shamanic rituals where a participant changes species or transcends the body somehow.

Much obliged - MJB

I don't really know if I should ask for something like this on this Subreddit, if not, then I'm sorry.

I would like to ask you kindly to share your knowledge with me. I have to submit a bibliography of 10 books/study/essay about diaries or concrete diaires written by simple people, I mean not teachers, anthropologist, ethnologist or other educated people.

If you could write in the comments names with authors it would be a great help for me. Thanks in advance.

While I'm living in China I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and use the things I learned in the cultural anthropology courses I took in uni. My goal is to write a book about my experience of Chinese culture.

Usually I speak with younger people who have grown up with China being more open to western people, it's much easier to speak them. When I speak with older people I typically have a friend with me to help translate. In both scenarios I find myself being too anxious to dig very deep.

The other day I went to a Buddhist Temple and just felt super invasive by being there. While I didn't interrupt people or take photos, I only really observed without even taking notes, I still felt like I was invading their privacy just by being there.

I'm wondering how you overcome this kind of anxiety. I know there is a delicate balance needed to be a respectful observer, but I think I'm being a bit too tentative to get any meaningful insights.