Roundabout Fieldwork during Infectious and Ideological Pandemics

The insecurities of today's infectious and ideological pandemics and the restrictions on free travel may drag on for years. Anthropologists will need to search for creative ways to acquire ethnographic knowledge beyond in-situ research. Digital fieldwork has been around for two decades. Using c...

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Published in:Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 2022-01, Vol.147 (1/2), p.137-142
Main Author: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Autocracy
Cold War
Communism
Cooperative learning
COVID-19
Cultivation
Disease transmission
Electronic technology
Epidemics
Ethnography
Fever
Field study
Fieldwork
Hepatitis
Human rights
Ideology
Immunization
Malaria
Pandemics
Partnerships
Research partnerships
Sex crimes
Shortcuts: Crisis Meets Crises
Social media
Students
Technology
Tropical diseases
Typhoid
World War I
World War II
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Summary:The insecurities of today's infectious and ideological pandemics and the restrictions on free travel may drag on for years. Anthropologists will need to search for creative ways to acquire ethnographic knowledge beyond in-situ research. Digital fieldwork has been around for two decades. Using computer technology to study social media and virtual worlds, it has allowed anthropologists to conduct fieldwork with research participants online. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a further spread of interactive tools, such as Teams and Zoom, which facilitate the cultivation of mediated ethnographic relationships. The same technology may also enable research partnerships. European and North American anthropologists and students can undertake collaborative projects by sharing research funds and access to online library resources with academic colleagues and students in less privileged parts of the world. Here, Robben discusses the transition to roundabout fieldwork during the pandemic.
ISSN:0044-2666