{"id":223,"date":"2010-10-13T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2016-12-07T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:00:12","slug":"about-doing-anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/about-doing-anthropology\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: About &#8220;doing anthropology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT anthropologists in this short video talk about doing anthropology, about their personal experiences with working as anthropologists and ethnographers.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/techtv.mit.edu\/videos\/315-doing-anthropology\">http:\/\/techtv.mit.edu\/videos\/315-doing-anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Thoughts on Fieldwork From Three Research Sites<\/em><br \/>\nCultural Anthropology is a social science that explores how people understand &#8211; and act in &#8211; the world. But what, exactly, is it that Cultural Anthropologists do? How do they approach their research? In this short film, three members of MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/anthropology\/\">Anthropology Department<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/anthropology\/faculty_staff\/helmreich\/index.html\">Stefan Helmreich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/anthropology\/faculty_staff\/james\/index.html\">Erica James<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/anthropology\/faculty_staff\/paxson\/index.html\">Heather Paxson<\/a>, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object id=\"ttvplayer\" width=\"437\" height=\"288\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"ttvplayer\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_203822\/uiconf_id\/1898102\/entry_id\/1_ogaus7am\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_203822\/uiconf_id\/1898102\/entry_id\/1_ogaus7am\/\" \/><embed id=\"ttvplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"437\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_203822\/uiconf_id\/1898102\/entry_id\/1_ogaus7am\/\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" data=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/_203822\/uiconf_id\/1898102\/entry_id\/1_ogaus7am\/\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" name=\"ttvplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT anthropologists in this short video talk about doing anthropology, about their personal experiences with working as anthropologists and ethnographers. 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