Ethnographic Details Flashcards
LDLM - Full Title
Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt
LDLM - Ethnographer
Farha Ghannam
LDLM - Publication date
2013
LDLM - Fieldwork duration
over 20 years, starting from 1993
LDLM - Fieldwork summary
Investigating masculinity in working class men in al-Zawiya, Cairo, Egypt
Staples - Full Title
At the Intersection of Disability and Masculinity: Exploring Gender and Bodily Difference in India
Staples - Ethnographer
James Staples
Staples - Publication date
2011
Staples - Fieldwork duration
2003-2007
Staples - Fieldwork summary
Exploring how physical disabilities affect the masculinity of people with leprosy and cerebral palsy in Bethany and Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
JW - Full Title
An Ethnographic-Feminist Study of Jordanian Womens’ Experiences of Domestic Violence and Process of Resolution
JW - Ethnographer
Reema Safadi et al.
JW - Publication date
2013
JW - Fieldwork duration
February to July 2009
JW - Fieldwork summary
Conducted with 12 Jordanian women at the Jordan Womens’ Union (JWU) who chose to be anonymous through interviews on their experience with and escape from domestic violence
YCA - Full Title
The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The ‘Yemenite Children Affair’ and Body Commodification in Israel
YCA - Ethnographer
Meira Weiss
YCA - Publication date
2001
YCA - Fieldwork duration
1996-1999
YCA - Fieldwork summary
Conducted through interviews of parents of Yemenite Jewish children and the viewing of exhumed remains of other children, who had presumably been abducted in the Yemenite Children Affair which occured in Israel in the 1950s
Investigating how these children were stripped of their identities and viewed as objects by the medical gaze
LDME - Full Title
Life and Death on Mount Everest - Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
LDME - Ethnographer
Sherry Ortner
LDME - Publication date
2001
LDME - Fieldwork duration
in Solu-Khumbu, Nepal in the 1960s-70s; Kathmandu, Nepal in the 1980s-90s
LDME - Fieldwork summary
Investigating the social relations between Sherpas and sahibs (Western mountaineers), and the socio-cultural factors which influence mountaineering in Nepal
FFBB - Full Title
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
FFBB - Ethnographer
Seth M. Holmes
FFBB - Publication date
2013
FFBB - Fieldwork duration
From 2003-2008, including 1.5 years of prior participant observation
FFBB - Fieldwork summary
In San Miguel, Oaxaca, Mexico; Washington, USA; California, USA
Investigating how social processes naturalise violence and suffering enacted on Triqui migrant workers in the US/Mexico migrant labour system
SBU - Full Title
Seen but Unheard: A Case-Study of Low-Waged Tamil Migrant Workers in Singapore
SBU - Ethnographer
Wajihah Hamid
SBU - Publication date
2014
SBU - Fieldwork duration
June-July 2012
SBU - Fieldwork summary
Investigating the economic marginalisation and social exclusion of Tamil migrant workers in Singapore society
Thai Women - Full Title
An Ethnography of Restaurant Workers: Thai Women in England
Thai Women - Ethnographer
Patreeya Kitcharoen
Thai Women - Publication date
2007
Thai Women - Fieldwork duration
January-December 2003
Thai Women - Fieldwork summary
Participant observation done through her employment as a waitress in a Central England branch of Thai restaurant chain ‘the Jasmine’
Interviews with 20 full-time and 4 part-time workers of varying education levels and classes took place, using pseudonyms for all staff members, to investigate contradictory class mobility and the lives of Thai women in England
Contemporary Example 1: Afghan Women (Full Title, News Anchor, DD/MM/YY)
“Watch Afghan activist challenge Taliban spokesman on girls’ education”
Al Jazeera
15 August 2023
Contemporary Example 2: Somali Families in London (Full Title, News Anchor, DD/MM/YY)
“‘They treat us like animals’: Families waiting years for housing to take legal action against London Council”
The Guardian
6 May 2023
Contemporary Example 3: Wadea al-Fayoume (Full Title, News Anchor, DD/MM/YY)
“Wadea al-Fayoume: Last words of knifed US Muslim boy were ‘Mom, I’m fine’”
BBC News
17 October 2023