Ethnography
As taught in: Spring 2003
The politics of independence and technological objects: Michael Fischer learns to use a Gandhian spinning wheel of self-reliance. Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India, 1984. (Image courtesy of Susann Wilkinson.)
Instructors:
Prof. Joseph Dumit
Prof. Michael M.J. Fischer
MIT Course Number:
STS.360
Level:
Graduate
Course Description
This course is a practicum-style seminar in anthropological methods of ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Depending on student experience in ethnographic reading and practice, the course is a mix of reading anthropological and science studies ethnographies; and formulating and pursuing ethnographic work in local labs, companies, or other sites.
