Week 1:
January 7th

Introduction to the Course: The perennial challenges of fieldwork

Film: Maurice Godelier, "To Find the Baruya," film #3681-3682,

Finding a role and overcoming distrust

Myron Glazer, The Research Adventure: Promise and Problems of Fieldwork, (New York: Random House, 1972), Introduction and chapter 1 and 2

Reciprocity and other ethical issues

Glazer, op. cit, Chapter 3-A

Laura Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the Bush," in James P. Spradley and David W. McCurdy, Conformity and Conflict:  Readings in Cultural Anthropology, (New York:  Harper Collins Publishers, 1990, pp.78-88.

David Rohde, “Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones,” The New York Times, October 5, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Film: "Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial"

Race, Gender, Age and other characteristics of the researcher

David J. Banks, "From Structure to History in Malaya," in Lawless et al, Fieldwork: The Human Experience, (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1983), pp. 35-48;

Niara Sudarkasa, "In a World of Women: Field Work in a Yoruba Community," in Peggy Golde, ed., Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences, second edition, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).

If you are interested in reading more from this collection, The Introduction and first three chapters of Peggy Golde, Women in the Field can be found on line at:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=n7G22sTOxHQC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA1&ots=GmYxalbQi V&dq=peggy+golde+women+in+the+field

Contemporary challenges in fieldwork:  Inside and outside the law

Judith Adler Hellman, "Ask an 'open' question and you'll get a surprising answer: Counter-intuitive findings on Mexican migration to the United States." in Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci, eds. The Handbook of Culture and Migration. (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming, 2020).

Judith Adler Hellman, The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place, (New York: The New Press, 2008), Prologue, pp. xiii-xxiv; Chapters 1,2,3,and 4 pp. 17-56; Chapters 6-9. pp. 65-91;

[Please note: This book is available through the library as an e-book]

[ Recommended: “Pedro P.” in Judith Adler Hellman, Mexican Lives, (New York: The New Press, 1994), pp. 171-184.]

Contemporary challenges in fieldwork:  Inside and outside the law (continued)

Hellman, The World of Mexican Migrants, Chapter 14, 15 and 16 (pp. 119-166); Chapter 17, pp. 169-175 and chapter 19 (pp.191-209).  [Recommended: “A Note on Methodology,” pp. 232-241]

Contemporary Challenges: From social movements to gangs

Dennis Rodgers, “Joining the Gang and Becoming a Broder: The Violence of Ethnography in Contemporary Nicaragua.”  Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 26, No.4.  2007, pp. 444-61.

Dennis Rodgers, “Living in the Shadow of Death: Gangs, Violence and Social Order in Urban Nicaragua, 1996–2002,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol.  38, 2006, 267–292.

Jon Lee Anderson, “Slumlord: What has Hugo Chavez Wrought in Venezuela?” The New Yorker, January 28, 2013, pp. 40-51.

http://www.upworthy.com/wow-the-crazy-story-of-how-a-skyscraper-became-a-45-story-slum?c=ufb1   
                                                                                               

Deeper into danger zones:  Reliable sources?

Robert Gay, “Dangerous Liaisons:  Reflections on a Serial Ethnography, in Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla, eds. Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019), pp. 2015-218.

Robert Gay, Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman, (Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2005), pp. 1-136. [Available as an e-book]

           
                        Midterm Exam: In Class 1.5 Hours

Studies of NGO programs, aid policy and practice

David Mosse, Cultivating Development:  An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice, (London:  Pluto Press, 2005.  Preface plus Chapters 2-3. [Please note: Chapter 1 is recommended but not required.]    [Available as an e-book]

Studies of NGO programs, aid policy and practice (continued)

D. Mosse, op. cit..  Chapter 4 and 5

Monica deHart, “Fried Chicken or Pop?  Redefining Development and Ethnicity in Totonicapan,”Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 28 Issue 1, January 2009, pp. 63-82.

The International Volunteer:  The personal and the professional in international development

Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, “‘Valorando la Cultura Maya’: Volunteer Tourism and Globalized Cultural Production in a Guatemalan Weaving Cooperative,” Paper presented to the Third International Graduate Student Research Conference, CERLAC, York University, Toronto, 15-16 March 2013. 

Katharina Mangold, “‘Struggling to Do the Right Thing’: Challenges during international volunteering,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 8, 2012, pp. 1493-1508.
           
[Recommended only:  Eric Anton Heuser, “Befriending the Field: Culture and friendships in development worlds,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 8, 2012, pp.1423-1437.; and 
Anne-Meike Fechter, “The Personal and the Professional: Aid workers' relationships and values in the development process,” Special Issue: The Personal and the Professional in Aid Work, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 8, 2012, pp. 1387-1404].

Final Class:  Presentations of the Fieldwork Essays