Expanding Ethnographic Agencies

Essential Elements for Developing/Expanding Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs: Design Options for State Health Agencies

News – Agencies

`` In June, Bill Gates gave US$ 4.6 billion of Microsoft shares to the BMGF, followed by a new campaign to combat the spread of malaria. This latest donation reduces his Microsoft holdings from 2.4% to 1.3% (although Microsoft stock accounts for 9% of his overall net worth, and he remains the world’s wealthiest individual, despite donating billions of US$). The anti–malarial campaign focuses on...

Ethnographic demography: the use of ethnographic texts by demographers

Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections

This volume addresses fundamental questions about the nature, value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world and the agency of indigenous people in their production. The book’s primary focus lies with those objects that, by way of their specific histories, have been defined as “ethnographic”; however, the question of the contexts in which things are defined as “art” as oppose...

Infrastructure and Ethnographic Practice

By bringing together science studies, information science and ethnographic fieldwork in interdisciplinary research the author argues for the relevance of ethnographic practices when studying information systems as infrastructures of communication. Ethnographic fieldwork focuses attention on fringes and materialities of infrastructures and renders the researcher able to read the invisible layers...