Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk
Suvi Rautio’s writer’s block developed over the years, making it difficult to narrate close relationships with her fieldwork interlocutors.
Suvi Rautio’s writer’s block developed over the years, making it difficult to narrate close relationships with her fieldwork interlocutors.
It’s important to remain impartial when conducting ethnography. A mean girl at an after-school club challenged my role as a researcher.
Matti Nykänen, a famous Finnish ski jumper, passed away in February. He was both a superior athlete and a very troubled man – increasingly so over the years. This contradiction makes both him and the finnish public discourse following his death relevant subjects for anthropological analysis.
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