An Open Approach to Teaching Anthropology and Ethnography
Resources that support learning and practicing ethnographic method and writing.
A resource for students, instructors, and anyone else who might be curious about methodological variation in anthropology, ethnography, writing, and beyond.
An interactive, engaging tool to help students learn the craft of ethnographic writing through reading and reflecting on ethnographic vignettes printed on receipt-sized roll paper.
These tools let you create ethnographic annotations as points, paths, and areas on either an interactive world map or a floor plan, architectural drawing, or any other image. Fieldnotes are stored locally in your browser and can be filtered, searched, exported, and imported.
Designed for ethnographers and other field researchers, FieldWeaver allows you to map, categorize, and connect the various entities that constitute your fieldsite.
Resources that situate anthropology’s ideas, debates, and lineages.
An open-access interactive, multimedia timeline of anthropology for students, instructors, or anyone who might be interested in the history of the discipline.
A pedagogical tool that helps students engage with anthropology through short, focused encounters with talks by leading anthropologists and ethnographic media.
Dr. Amirpouyan Shiva
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Amir teaches anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Trained as a media anthropologist, he appreciates the materiality of media objects—broadly conceived—and practices of media making—widely construed.
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