Background: Food practices throughout the perinatal period have a profound influence on the health and wellbeing of a mother and her child. Following migration, pregnant immigrant women bring with them culturally-situated beliefs about appropriate eating behaviors, while simultaneously encountering new socio-cultural environments that can negatively affect their food choices. Research is needed...

In this paper, I want to present two stories about kinds of empiricism; about the ways a science, experimental high energy physics, understands and enacts empirical research, and about how this understanding differs from that of another science, molecular biology. An ethnography of the empirical in different sciences has never been written. One reason for this surely lies in the fact that the m...

We present Collage, an application designed specifically to support a K-12 teacher in a classroom equipped with a single PC and a projector. Initial ethnography of schools suggested that a tool that offered simplicity, enabled display of images and allowed incorporation of existing paper material (such as textbooks) would be most helpful. So, Collage is at heart a simple media viewer, but adds ...

Wireless mobile devices present a present a huge design and representational challenge for the discipline of humancomputer interaction. Past approaches have focused on user, task and artifact. This paper argues that in addition to these factors an understanding of context can assist with meeting design challenges for mobile applications. It proposes a matrix of eight dimensions of context drawn...

BACKGROUND Ethnographic research methods have a considerable history of use in medical settings. This paper provides a personal account of conducting ethnography in medical environments and focuses on some of the practical and ethical issues encountered in such settings. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION The paper describes particular issues that arise when undertaking ethnographic work, such as gain...

This article assesses Helen I. Safa's legacy to anthropological thought in Puerto Rico. The first part of the article locates Safa's research on the Island within a long tradition of fieldwork by U.S. scholars since the early twentieth century. More recent research, conducted mostly by Puerto Rican women anthropologists and other social scientists, has expanded upon Safa's insights on gender an...