Contemporary Ethnographies

Francisco Ferrándiz is a tenured senior researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain). He has a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from UC Berkeley. He has been actively engaged in public anthropology and the analysis of both grassroots and institutional memory politics in Spain and Europe. He is co-editor of Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights (2015).

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• PART 1: INTO THE LABYRINTH; 1.1. Starting out; 1.2. On ethnography; 1.3. Scientific, hermeneutic and collaborative paradigms in anthropology; 1.4. Brief history of fieldwork methods in anthropology and some classic examples; PART 2: ETHNOGRAPHIES IN FLOW; 2.1. Designing the research; 2.2. Fieldwork as a methodological situation; 2.3. Where to go?; 2.4. Landings; 2.5. Considering participant observation; 2.6. On informants or interlocutors; 2.7. Conversing, listening, interviewing and keeping quiet; 2.8. Stories and itineraries of the body; 2.9. Ethnography, audio-visual techniques and media, and new digital ecologies; 2.10. Farewell to the field; 2.11. Writing ethnography; PART 3: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE; 3.1. Globalization: evolving research scenarios; 3.2. Walking the tight rope: transnational research and ‘multi-sited’ ethnography; 3.3. The ethnography of shock: violence, conflict, and social suffering; 3.3.1. From everyday violence…; 3.3.2. ...to postconflict research