We encourage you to browse the selections, leave comments, and suggest other engaged ethnographies to add.
How did this project come about?
In 2011 Angela Stuesse began developing a syllabus for a graduate anthropology seminar titled Engaging Ethnography. In the course, students would explore anthropologists’ varying approaches to politically engaged research and consider how epistemologies, research questions, methodologies, writing, and other products of research are transformed by different forms of engagement.
Seeking suggestions of exemplary monographs by engaged ethnographers for potential inclusion in the seminar’s reading list, Stuesse put out a call over the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) listserv. To her surprise, she received over 50 recommendations, along with a dozen requests to share the list she compiled. The idea for a collaborative online space for sharing and growing the list was born.
This site would not have come to fruition without the dedication of four University of South Florida Anthropology Department graduate students: Jennifer Webb compiled the data and descriptions that form the heart of the ethnography list, Meredith Main developed the website, and Laura Baum and Cassandra Decker completed its construction and helped with its launch.
Stay tuned, share your ideas, and look out for additional contributions to our Engaged Ethnography project. Thank you for visiting!
Logo by Raul Marquez, La Carpa Online
Page image by Carlo Lazzeri (Pisa, Italy): (The Library, August 2007), [Usage allowed through SXC.hu]
- View the list by clicking Ethnography List in the menu to the upper right.
- Send us your thoughts and suggest other notable texts for inclusion in the list by clicking Suggestions.
How did this project come about?
In 2011 Angela Stuesse began developing a syllabus for a graduate anthropology seminar titled Engaging Ethnography. In the course, students would explore anthropologists’ varying approaches to politically engaged research and consider how epistemologies, research questions, methodologies, writing, and other products of research are transformed by different forms of engagement.
Seeking suggestions of exemplary monographs by engaged ethnographers for potential inclusion in the seminar’s reading list, Stuesse put out a call over the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational Anthropology (SUNTA) listserv. To her surprise, she received over 50 recommendations, along with a dozen requests to share the list she compiled. The idea for a collaborative online space for sharing and growing the list was born.
This site would not have come to fruition without the dedication of four University of South Florida Anthropology Department graduate students: Jennifer Webb compiled the data and descriptions that form the heart of the ethnography list, Meredith Main developed the website, and Laura Baum and Cassandra Decker completed its construction and helped with its launch.
Stay tuned, share your ideas, and look out for additional contributions to our Engaged Ethnography project. Thank you for visiting!
Logo by Raul Marquez, La Carpa Online
Page image by Carlo Lazzeri (Pisa, Italy): (The Library, August 2007), [Usage allowed through SXC.hu]