The aim of the Anthropology of Food and the Art of Ethnographic Practice is to develop fieldwork skills during the field excursion in Český Krumlov, learn how to analyse and interpret ethnographic data and how to write a research report.

To summarize, every student is expected to write a research project in the area of anthropology of food or body and health and carry out an ethnographic fieldwork during the excursion. Subsequently, the findings are going to be analysed during the remaining meetings. The final assignment is to write an essay (around 2500 words), in which students are going to summarize their research findings.

!For the first class: Read Geertz: Thick description!

1. (12. 10.) Introduction to Ethnography; Introduction to the fields of Anthropology of food; body and health

reading- compulsory reading: Geertz; Punch, Chapter 3

2. (2. 11.) Ethnography; Semi-structured interview; Study design and development

reading- compulsory reading: Punch, pp 150-154; 168-189; selected texts on the topics of food/ body (e.g. from the ones uploaded in Moodle)

3. (26. 11. – 2. 12. 2018) Fieldwork trip to Český Krumlov

reading- compulsory reading and tasks: Punch, pp 260-268; Guillemin - Gillam; write a short proposal (around 1-2 standard pages - due 19.11.2018); recommended reading: Oakley; Hammersley-Atkinson

4. (14. 12.) Introduction to qualitative data analysis: Coding and memoing

reading- compulsory: Punch, pp 197-204; recommended: Saldaña, pp 1-22, 41-49; code approx. 2 standard pages of your data, ideally partly from participant observation, partly from )can be informal) interview - choose some significant excerpt - upload it until 13.12 12.00.

5. (4. 1. 2019) Ethnographic data interpretation; How to write a qualitative research report

reading- compulsory reading: Punch, Chapter 12, upload your second version of coding the same data excerpt - deadline 2.1.2019, 12.00.

Terms of the seminar blocks: 12.10., 2.11., 14.12.2018; 4.1.2019

Term of the fieldwork trip: 26.11. - 2.12.2018