Methods and tools to
support interactive ethnographic fieldwork
CCSR, University of Manchester
A workshop run by Michael
Fischer, University of Kent
Tuesday 30 May 2006
10.00-4.30
Registration 9.45
PROGRAMME
Ethnographic fieldwork places increasing demands on the fieldworker given the interactive methods necessary. This workshop, sponsored by the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) and the Research Methods Programme, will focus on how to use tools and tutorials on, and contribute to, AnthroMethods.net, a research community supported wiki-style portal for ethnographic methods hosted by CSAC.
AnthroMethods includes tools for creating online tutorials and workshops for low-tech researchers in addition to being a repository for tools and other resources to support ethnographic research. The initial content represents results of our current project, but we encourage and support contributions from others, which can be published by community members online after registration.
The tools used in the workshop are free open source software that CSAC developed, adapted or adopted for the Research Methods Programme. These include generic cross-platform tools including video and photo-elicitation, fieldnote management, automatic GIS stamping of field media (video, photographs and audio recordings), as well as field-usable tools to support network analysis and visualisation, consensus analysis and pattern identification and verification in free-form and structured field data.
Participant outcomes will include knowing how to:
- access AnthroMethods.net
- download tools
- read, amend and extend tutorial material
- add a new resource and register with AnthroMethods as a potential contributor
