QUALITATIVE METHODS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

This course is designed to train students in qualitative research methods in anthropology. Through a hands-on approach, the course is designed to prepare students to undertake research using ethnographic and intensive interview methods and deepen their appreciation of the methodological dimensions of published qualitative work. The course explores the complexities of lived experience—that is, the intensities of embodied being in relation to affective energies between living and nonliving matter, space, and place—and aims to increase attention to the felt “texture” of experience. By the end of the course, students will be able to evaluate, critically review and discuss methodological issues; apply and execute comparative analyses and anticipate the need for further knowledge.