OSEA-CITE: Ethnography of the Future/Interdisciplinary
Cultural Anthropology/Study Abroad
Eligibility and Types of Writing Projects Is the Workshop for Me?
A Broad Definition of Ethnography: Fieldwork
and Representations
Ethnographies are representations of cultural communities, forms,
and processes. Ethnographies are traditionally speaking written
texts, but they can also exist in other forms of visual media and
documentation – such as art, video, photography, music, and
performance. One of OSEA’ goals are to explore multiple media
as tools to both trigger or elicit information and experiences as
well as to document the pedagogical and investigative experiments;
in short, we seek to expand the modes of documenting the ethnographic
processes of fieldwork, but by acknowledging that our use of these
tools as triggers also made them a part of the subject of our study.
Workshops Support Participants Research
Based on the particular needs and interests of the participants,
Dr. Castañeda provides custom designed workshops for the
participants on issues such as the following:
• ethnographic genres;
• representation;
• publishing strategies;
• writing for different audiences and venues;
• the transformation of research materials into publications;
• how to review journal manuscripts;
• how to respond to reviews of your manuscript; and
• related topics based on participant interest
AApplicants are requested to specify on the application form which,
if any, of these are of interest to the potential participant. This
information allows the overall workshop to be tailored to the participant's
needs.
Fields of Study
Any culture-centered discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities,
including Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Sociology, Latin
American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, American/Ethnic Studies,
Latino Studies — in all geographic areas and theoretical frameworks.
