We are delighted to announce the publication of Irish Journal of Anthropology Special Issue, volume 22(1) 2019 – Creative Ethnography: Epistemologies, Pedagogies, Possibilities
With authors from four different continents, this 350-page special issue explores creativity in research methods and forms of representation, including assemblies of different genres of creative – poetry, imagery, film, drama, prose, creative practice, and creative pedagogy.
An excellent resource for anyone wanting to read creative anthropological writing as well as about creativity in methodology and pedagogy.
Bombo Road, Kampala – Ruth Kelly
Bingo – Brian McGahey
Okbichaloni (Things Aren’t Always What They Seem to Be. Know That for Sure): Hustling, HIV, and Hope in Luoland, Western Kenya – Gemma Aellah
Fieldwork in Silence: A Photo-Story of Honey in Southeast Angola – João Afonso Baptista
Graphic Possibilities: Ethnographic Comic Book about Hepatitis C and Injecting Drug Use – Aleksandra Bartoszko
A Printer’s Destiny – Anna Heitger
Everyday Shops – Anna Skoura
Urban Cultivators – Chris Hellwig
The Juggler: How Social Circus Helps Children from the Stellenbosch Area in South Africa to Embody, Become Aware of, and Challenge the Walls in Their Landscape – Sophie Kalker
Mind the Gap: The Case for Adopting an Ethno-Drama Writing Style in Sensitive Organizational Ethnography – Angela Stephanie Mazzetti
Creative Ethnographies: Writing Exile, Theatre, and Citizenship – Lidis Garbovan
Indignation, Knowledge, and That Time on the Bus – Michele Wisdahl
Point of View, Narrative Voice, and Ethnographic Representation: Writing Everyday Violence in 2010s Mexico – Hettie Malcomson
Dreams, Death, and the Irish Question – Matthew McCoy
Epistolary Fragments for an Anthropology of Loneliness – Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Mythily Meher
Coconuts – Kayla Rush
The Bol Bam Pilgrimage: Reflections on a Not So Adventurous Adventure – Cora Gaebel
An Ethnographic Experience: Freedom, Fiction, and Medicine Women in Afrofuturist Contexts – Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco
Geese in the Hammer – Scott McKendry
Beloved Monster: Ethnographies of Mexico City – Oralia Gómez-Ramírez
Of Bodies and Documents: A Reportage from a Transylvanian Village – Ana Chiritoiu
Ethnographic Exploration of a Sensorial Underwater World – Rasmus Rodineliussen
Dancing Tango in Buenos Aires – Federica Banfi
Learning to Fly: A Story Tale for My Three Year Old Son. An Unconventional Ethnographic Restitution of a Creative Investigation on Body Suspensions – Federica Manfredi
The Art of the Game: Visual Methods, Artistic Engagement, and Playful Ethnography – Maruška Svašek
Exploring a Diffuse and Unstructured Participatory Action Research Frame: Mourning as a Tool for Social Interposition in Tirana, Albania – Kailey Rocker and Arba Bekteshi
The Meaning of Pain: Exploring the Intersections of Poetry and Ethnography – Catherine Trundle and Susan Wardell
Visual Arts as Methods of Research: Some Reflections from an Ethnography with HIV Positive Teenagers – Francesca Cancelliere
Accidental Ethnografiction: Reflections on the Value of Creative Writing in Anthropology – Ellen Wiles
Putting ‘Talk’ Out There: The Cork Folklore Project’s Recipe Book for Dissemination – Clíona O’Carroll
Land, the Wiwa Map, and Coca Plants: Curating Memories of an Unfinished Armed Conflict – Sofía Natalia González-Ayala and Juliana
Knowing by Doing: Connecting to the Field in Irish Music through Creative Practice on the Cello – Kaylie Streit
Activist Teaching: Three Steps to Make Activism Part of the Anthropological Learning Process – David Whyte
Drawing on Thick Descriptions in Architectural Pedagogy – Nuala Flood
StreetSpace Studio: Architecture Learns Anthropology – Agustina Martire