Mastodawn

Managed to obtain a copy of this book! Chenciner was a British ethnographer, and Magomedkhanov is a Dagestanian ethnograper and sociologist who also revived naturally dyed carpets in Dagestan. For this book they catalogued traditional tattoos, which turned out to be the key to interpreting the symbolism in textile and other decorative art forms from the region. #Caucasus #Dagestan #folkart #textileart #traditionaltattoos #ethnography

c.strøm 4d ago

Postcard from around 1900 of norwegian folk fiddler and dancers.

#postcard #silentmusic #folkmusic #folkdance #folkcostume #fiddle #violin #music #photography #ethnography

Jeffrey Yost Jun 11

Congratulation to CBI's 2026 Norberg Travel Grant Recipients Cornell University's Andra Sonia Petrutiu & Jordan Ali, and Harvard University's Max Kwass-Mason! Read about their fascinating dissertation projects in the short article in CBI Bits & Bytes.

#Tech #Technology #Science #Computing #DigitalTechnology #software #internet #sociology #ethnography #anthropology #history #communication

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/jordan-ali-max-kwass-mason-and-andra-sonia-petrutiu-are-2026-cbi-norberg-grantees

Jan D Jun 11

David Zeitlyn: An Argument for Sparsity

"...we should all say less more clearly"

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:161b2fd1-12ba-48fe-bbae-167d612eb8b5/files/rst74cr33t

#ethnography #theory #language

kūpa 🇻🇪Jun 8

been a while since my last thread on south amerindian ethnology/anthropology. let's pick the next one based on my recent articles:

edit: I always forget hashtags #anthropology #ethnology #ethnography

hunting and fraught relations with animals

(the absence of) creation myths

66.7%

technodiversity as an anthropological concept

can a river be a person?

33.3%

Poll ended at Jun 16 at 6:51pm.

Judith Beyer Jun 7

"It's a cold winter morning ..." This is a kitsch opening and has nothing to do with #ethnography. Why do non-anthropologists so often think that something becomes 'ethnography' if you start a new paragraph by writing about the weather? #peerreview #methodology