Cognitive Anthropological Fieldwork

Dangerous Liaisons: Risk, Positionality and Power in Women’s Anthropological Fieldwork

Introduction That social realities are constructed through, and mediated by, interpersonal relationships is a truism for most anthropologists. Yet when it comes to assessing the realities of risk and danger in our own fieldwork, we are less adept at applying this basic premise to the world we inhabit. In the preparation of new fieldworkers, most anthropology schools treat fieldwork risk as exte...

Farm Work and Fieldwork: American Agriculture in Anthropological Perspective

Anthropological Contributions to Cognitive Science Organizers

Anthropology was a founding member of cognitive science (Bender et al., 2010; Gardner, 1985), sharing with other cognitive disciplines a deep interest in thinking and behavior. With its unique expertise in the cultural content, context, and constitution of cognition, it would still be essential to any comprehensive endeavor to explore the human mind (Bloch, 2012), but rather has turned into cog...

Virtual Fieldwork

The morphological properties of genealogical and marriage alliance networks constitute a key to the understanding of matrimonial behavior and social norms, in particular where these norms have not been explicitly formalized. Their analysis, however, faces a major difficulty: the actual datasets which allow researchers to reconstruct kinship and alliance networks are generally subject to a marke...

The Perspectives of Fieldwork Educators Regarding Level II Fieldwork Students.

ABSTRACT Ten occupational therapists employed in pediatric and adult rehabilitation settings participated in focus groups to discuss their perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks in working with occupational therapy students. Participants identified professional values, opportunities for continued professional development, recruitment of future employees, and pride in learning experiences ava...