research


As part of my summer reading, I’ve been going through some of Nicolas Joly and Gerard Bertrand’s writings on biodynamics and wine. (See the list of readings at the end of this post.) It is fascinating reading, and I wish I could find more writings by winemakers who practice biodynamics in English. (Or, in a pinch, Mongolian…) If anyone has suggestions, please do get in touch.  This is going to be even more of a rambling post than mine...

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Or maybe it’s a problem with me. At any rate, it seems the more I think about Anthroenology, the more directions I end up going in. I start a blog entry on one particular aspect of the project, and it leads me to think of six different other things that may or may not be worthy of investigation. But they require thinking about. And so I have at least three or four blog posts on various aspects of the project in different states of...

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Mad fieldwork skills


Posted By on Dec 5, 2016

There is one aspect of anthropological fieldwork which I do not think I have ever seen discussed. That is fieldwork skills. By this, I do not mean, however, research skills or interview techniques. You may or may not get taught them as an anthropology student. (You should get taught them, of course, but ‘Ought’ and ‘Is’ aren’t the same thing.) Nor am I talking about languages, or learning to take acceptable videos or photos. No, what...

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While many, if not most, of the posts on this blog have been about wine, in some shape or form, this one is about the first part of our name: the Anthro-, which is from ‘anthropology’. It occurred to me that I have never explained for those unfamiliar with it, what exactly anthropological fieldwork is. As Julia and I have done two short periods of fieldwork earlier this autumn, I thought this was a good time to address this lacuna....

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