Fine Observation: Ways of Seeing, Forms of Fieldwork

Explores possibilities for reimagining ethnography as a genre of writing and mode of knowledge production through delving into documentary and representational practices in other fields, including literature, journalism, art history, graphic novels, documentary photography, etc. Challenges any habituated acceptance of the fiction/nonfiction opposition while insisting on the necessity of evidence in anthropology. Prerequisite: By consent of instructor. Significant work outside of class time is expected of the student for this course.