Comments on: The shape of ethnographic materials https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/ critical anthropology of academic culture Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 By: eli https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/#comment-1381 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:43:26 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1783#comment-1381 Thanks, Kyle and Mike!

]]> By: Kyle Conway https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/#comment-1380 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:23:55 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1783#comment-1380 Of all of your posts, I think I have found this one the most stimulating (although I really like your photos, which are so evocative of what it felt like when I attended the Université Jean Monnet in St-Etienne about 15 years ago). I hope as you work through your findings that you’ll say more about the relationship (if any) between the “epistemologies of university models,” academics’ notions of temporality and their relationship to time, and the failure of the the university protest movement in 2009. Failure — at least for my money — is always more interesting than success, and far more instructive.

]]> By: Michael Bishop https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/#comment-1379 Tue, 31 May 2011 15:42:38 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1783#comment-1379 Thanks for sharing this Eli! good stuff!

]]> By: eli https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/#comment-1378 Fri, 27 May 2011 04:00:19 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1783#comment-1378 In reply to Tim Lacy.

Thanks, Tim! It is a completely accurate observation that a lot of my research materials won’t make it into the dissertation. There’s just too much. But I think this must be the case for most research projects, no? Maybe we need some word for this epistemological condition… evidentiary surplus? Knowledge overflow? Waste knowlege? I mean, in a sense one is “wasting” evidence if one never analyzes it…

]]> By: Tim Lacy https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/05/25/the-shape-of-ethnographic-materials/#comment-1377 Thu, 26 May 2011 15:16:28 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1783#comment-1377 The quantity of material you gathered seems to predict a long line of writing, of picking up and expanding upon pieces that won’t make it into your final work (dissertation). Congratulations on a successful fieldwork endeavor! If you maintain the few deep and many casual acquaintances made, this could lead to lots of future invitations back to France. That’s an exciting thought, at least from this observer of your work. – TL

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