Ethnography
STS.360 · Science, Technology, and Society · Graduate · Spring 2003
Prof. Joseph Dumit, Prof. Michael M.J. Fischer
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.
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