Registration is required, contact fouzieyha.towghi@anu.edu.au.

This two-hour interactive workshop will cover various problems of interest to anthropologists at different career stages (postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, early career teaching staff), including how to work with ethnographic data in different kinds of writings, how to mobilize theory (anthropological and otherwise) as a tool in ethnographic writing, and how to work comparatively with ethnographic materials from other researchers. Nevertheless, participants are encouraged to come to the workshop with additional topics of interest and are welcome to bring writing materials to discuss, including copies of fieldnotes, passages from books, or anything else that might enrich the discussion.

Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, most recently, A Revolution in Fragments: Traversing Scales of Justice, Ideology, and Practice in Bolivia (Duke UP, 2019). His articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist, among others, and he has also published in more general outlets such as Boston Review and The Paris Review. He is currently in residence at ANU as a Distinguished Visiting Mentor in the College of Law.