An Ethnographic Inventory: Field Devices for Anthropological Inquiry

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This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of relational invention. It advances contemporary debates in ethnography by arguing that the empirical practice of anthropology is and has always been an inventive activity. Bringing together contributions from scholars across the world, the volume offers an expansive vision of the resourcefulness that anthropologists unfold in their empirical investigations by compiling inventive social and material techniques, or field devices, for anthropological inquiry. The chapters seek to inspire both novel and experienced practitioners of ethnography to venture into the many possibilities of fieldwork, to demonstrate the essential creative and inventive practices neglected in traditional accounts of ethnography, and to invite anthropologists to confidently engage in inventive fieldwork practices. Introduction: The ethnographic invention Adolfo Estalella and Tomás Sánchez Criado Interlude I: The principle of invention (Outside in) Martin Savransky 1. How to counter-map collectively Counter-Cartographies Collective (3Cs) 2. How to produce responsive ethnography of data Jorge Núñez and Maka Suárez 3. How to use disconcertment as ethnographic field-device Helen Verran 4. How to draw fieldnotes Letizia Bonanno 5. How to do a digital epidemiography Shama Patel and John Postill 6. How to make ethnographic research with exhibitions Francisco Martínez 7. How to write fieldpoetry Leah Zani 8. How to flow with materials Rachel Harkness 9. How to game ethnography Ignacio Farías and Tomás Sánchez Criado 10. How to get caught in the ethnographic material Greg Pierotti and Cristiana Giordano 11. How to devise collaborative hermeneutics Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun 12. How to set ethnography in motion Monika Streule 13. How to use Pathosformeln in anthropological inquiry Anthony Stavrianakis 14. How to perform field encounters Andrew Irving 15. How to invent childhood publics with photo-stories Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss 16. How to remediate ethnography Adolfo Estalella 17. How to disrupt our field habits with sensory probes Anna Harris 18. How to stitch ethnography Tania Pérez-Bustos Interlude II: An elimination dance (a history of disciplining the field/s) Denielle Elliott Interlude III: The politics of invention Isaac Marrero-Guillamón and E. Gabriel Dattatreyan Conclusion: Taking inventory Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella