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Kaitlyn Rabach, Fall 2019Department of Anthropology, University of California IrvineAnthro 215A / “Ethnographic Methods” / Professor Kim FortunThe Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges  By Lilith Mahmud / The University of Chicago Press, 2014What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually?What modes of inquiry were used to produce it?How is the text structured and performed?How can it circulate?

 SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHYQuestioning a TextTarek M.

What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics?The was a revival of religion in China following the “opening up” in 1978. Christianity, long perceived by both commoners and scholars as a Western import, was able to take root in in both urban and rural areas.

 Biomedical Odysseys—Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China by Priscilla Song (2017) 

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1.1 What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics?

Danielle Tassara, Fall 2019Department of Anthropology, University of California IrvineAnthro 215A / “Ethnographic Methods” / Professor Kim FortunInfertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt by Marcia C.

What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually? Coming of Age in Second Life is an ethnographic text which features Tom Boellstorff providing an ethnographic outlook on the virtual world of Second Life. The fieldwork takes place entirely online and explores the modes of communication, expression, and group making within the space.

Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant ResistanceScott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the weak: everyday forms of peasant resistance. New Haven: Yale University Press. What is the text “about” -- empirically and conceptually?What modes of inquiry were used to produce it?How is the text structured and performed?How can it circulate?  What is the text about – empirically?The text is about subtle ways in which peasants disrupt and rebel against the state.

SKETCHING ETHNOGRAPHY

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What is the text about – empirically?What phenomenon is drawn out in the text?  A social process; a cultural and political-economic shift; a cultural “infrastructure;” an emergent assemblage of science-culture-technology-economics?In this book, the phenomenon of human-insect relations are drawn out through an A-Z “encyclopedia,” with each chapter focused on a different lettered aspect of the relationship. Where is this phenomenon located – in a neighborhood, in a country, in “Western Culture,” in a globalizing economy?Raffles travels around the world for his book, ranging from the