{"product_id":"efieldnotes-9780812247787","title":"eFieldnotes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSixteen scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. Reflecting on fieldwork globally, they discuss shifting boundaries between home and field, ethics in online fieldwork, new forms of digital data and collaboration, and the future of fieldnote archiving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Published in 1990, Roger Sanjek's landmark edited volume \u003ci\u003eFieldnotes\u003c\/i\u003e built on debates associated with \u003ci\u003eWriting Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and other works of the time, exploring the often unacknowledged but pivotal role of fieldnotes in ethnographic research. \u003ci\u003eeFieldnotes\u003c\/i\u003e, coedited by Sanjek with Susan Tratner, builds on that legacy with a new set of landmark essays on fieldnotes in the digital age . . . [that] push us to rethink the relationship between the empirical, methodological, and theoretical in ethnographic inquiry-in a context when the digital age threatens the methods and time frames of ethnography, yet simultaneously offers new opportunities for relevance and insight.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The 15 articles offer richly nuanced readings of the changing nature of fieldwork and the variety of notes that arise from digital sources . . . A welcome addition to undergraduate and graduate courses on fieldwork methods . . . Highly recommended.\" * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"From a well-argued exploration of historical continuities between practices and premises in the earlier world of fieldnotes and those characteristic of the current digital terrain, to a sophisticated, complex, and candid discussion of ethics in the broadest sense, \u003ci\u003eeFieldnotes\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily interesting and worthy successor to the classic \u003ci\u003eFieldnotes\u003c\/i\u003e, and a lively set of provocations on its own.\" * Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —Susan W. Tratner and Roger Sanjek\u003cbr\u003e PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS AND CONTINUITIES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes\u003cbr\u003e —Roger Sanjek\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Digital Technologies, Virtual Communities, Electronic Fieldwork: The Slow Social Science Adapts to High-Tech Japan\u003cbr\u003e —William W. Kelly\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Changes in Fieldnotes Practice over the Past Thirty Years in U.S.\u003cbr\u003e Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e —Jean E. Jackson\u003cbr\u003e PART II. FIELDWORK OFF- AND ONLINE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. The Digital Divide Revisited: Local and Global Manifestations\u003cbr\u003e —Mary H. Moran\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Writing eFieldnotes: Some Ethical Considerations\u003cbr\u003e —Mieke Schrooten\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Filesharing and (Im)Mortality: From Genealogical Records to Facebook\u003cbr\u003e —Martin Slama\u003cbr\u003e PART III. DIGITALLY Mediated Fieldwork and Collegiality\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Doing Fieldwork, BRB: Locating the Field on and with Emerging Media\u003cbr\u003e —Jordan Kraemer\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. \"Through a Screen Darkly\": On Remote, Collaborative Fieldwork in the Digital Age\u003cbr\u003e —Jenna Burrell\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Being in Fieldwork: Collaboration, Digital Media, and Ethnographic Practice\u003cbr\u003e —Heather A. Horst\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. ONLINE FIELDWORK AND FIELDNOTES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. New York Parenting Discussion Boards: eFieldnotes for New Research Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e —Susan W. Tratner\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. When Fieldnotes Seem to Write Themselves: Ethnography Online\u003cbr\u003e —Bonnie A. Nardi\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. The Ethnography of Inscriptive Speech\u003cbr\u003e —Graham M. Jones and Bambi B. Schieffelin\u003cbr\u003e PART V. WIDENING COMPLEXITIES AND CONTEXTS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Preservation, Sharing, and Technological Challenges of Longitudinal\u003cbr\u003e Research in the Digital Age\u003cbr\u003e —Lisa Cliggett\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Archiving Fieldnotes? Placing \"Anthropological Records\" Among Plural Digital Worlds\u003cbr\u003e —Rena Lederman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Digital Engagements: Fieldnotes and Queries for Anthropology Prompted by Iraqi Kurdistan in the Information Age\u003cbr\u003e —Diane E. King\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405727080791,"sku":"9780812247787","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247787.jpg?v=1730493408","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/efieldnotes-9780812247787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}