http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csac/rss/new_projects.rss anthropology, research ***Current research projects of CSAC researchers***. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csac/images/smallcsaclogo.png http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csac/rss/new_projects.rss Copyright 1986-2007, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury. mf1@ukc.ac.uk mf1@ukc.ac.uk Thu, Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 UT CSAC RSSGen 1.0 Tue Nov 01 08:29:16 GMT 2011 1440 new_projects.rss http://lucy.kent.ac.uk/dz/Mbouda_web/ With the support of the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme, the Cameroon National archives and the British Council, Yaoundi the negatives are being archived to enable future research to take place. The collection is a rare archive of local photographic practices which, because Touselle is still working the community where they were taken, can be well documented with his assistance, thus rendering the archive considerably more important for the future than the bare collection of negatives alone. The collection will enable scholars to raise a wide range of issues about the presentation of self, changing fashions and global patterns of influence as mediated by local norms of appropriate behaviour in public. anthropology http://grok.anthropology.ac.uk Genealogies of knowledge - developing anthropological middleware to support fieldwork-based social science An E-science middleware project The main aim of the project is to design, implement and deploy support for components of key research processes in fieldwork-based social science. In particular, we will address 1) support for bibliographic research (references and full text extracts) so 'standard' bibliographic references in AIO will have links to relevant full-text sources automatically added. 2) support for interactive collection and aggregation of data during fieldwork 3) support for the consolidation, analysis, modelling and dissemination of fieldwork data. anthropology, research methods, research http://anthromethods.net/amwiki/AnthroMethods/AnthroMethods.html http://anthromethods.net/amwiki/resources/skins/anthromethods/images/AnthroMethods5.png Anthropological research is immersive and interactive - working with people on a day-to-day basis to understand the material circumstances people live in, and how their local viewpoint both adapts to and changes these circumstances. AnthroMethods is a collaborative site for sharing information about research methods for social science. It has three sections, AnthroMethods for articles, AnthroTools for software and other research tools, and AnthroResources for links and discussion of resources to support research or research training. Once registered, you can contribute to any of these sections. At CSAC in Kent we are extending and developing conventional and computer-based methods for collecting interactive ethnographic data and methods of dynamic data management. This effort incorporates a substantive project on the creation and transmission of local environmental knowledge. We hope to define aspects of best practice in ethnoecology and computer-assisted ethnographic research and to make these methods accessible to researchers who have limited experience with ethnographic approaches to social research, but who are involved in the application of local knowledge to practical conservation and development initiatives. This requires useful instruments and procedures applicable outside anthropology and the means for integrating the results in a useful way with those of other disciplines. - We will review existing methods relevant to ethnoecology, identifying ways to amplify our ability to apply these using digital media and computers (particularly hand-held computers), develop new methods which produce results that can be integrated with those of other disciplines, improve our formal understanding of qualitative analysis, and investigate and develop prototypic interactive quantitative methods. anthropology, research methods, research http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Stirling/index.html http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/Paul3.jpg **45 years in the Turkish Village - 1949-1994** ***Paul Stirling's Ethnographic Data Archives*** Paul Stirling did ethnographic research in two Turkish villages between 1949 and 1994. He collected formal household data in 1950, 1971 and 1985. Since 1990 we have been preparing an archives of this data for eventual public access for teaching and research, as well as the passerby who has a more than casual interest in Turkey and its past half-century of change. anthropology http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/wolf.gif ***The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies*** The Virtual Institute of Mambila Studies seeks to collate and connect the different research and researchers with an interest in the Mambila people of the Nigeria Cameroon borderland and their neighbours; their languages and the area in which they live. We take a broad view of Mambila, including other groups speaking related languages such as Kwanja, Vute, Wawa, Nizaa, Njerep (3 speakers at last count!) Twendi (35 speakers), Tep, and others. Our research is primarily of an anthropological and linguistic nature; abstracts or full texts of papers are available at the site. The currently available work includes reports on Zeitlyn's research on kinship and language and his annotated version of Meek's early ethnological work in the region, and Connell's comparative linguistic research and work on tone realization in Mambila, as well as a full bibliography of anthropological, linguistic, and related research on Mambila. VIMS was established by D Zeitlyn in 1995 anthropology http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/3C3accs_TOC.html ***The APFT Content Code System*** >Mike Fischer, Oliver Kortendick and David Zeitlyn >A content coding framework designed for ethnographic data anthropology http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/tradition.html http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Tradition/Vaka_Moruroa_inline_1.gif ***Making Tradition in the Cook Islands***: **Images of the Islands** From 1992 to present Michael Fischer and Wenonah Lyon have been investigating the role and processes of tradition in the Cook Islands, a modern Polynesian island nation located about 1000 km due west of the Society Islands. We will be presenting some of the materials we have collected there, still images, video and sound recordings, as well as the texts which have been based on these. We will also be including material by others with their permission. To begin things, we are including Mauke Dance a short Quicktime Movie (4 meg.) of 14 seconds of a dance performance by residents of the island of Mauke at the 1993 Agriculture Show on Rarotonga, Cook Islands. A lot of material has now been cleared for release by the Cook Islanders and will be added as time permits. Sonia Vougioukalou has done her doctoral work on Atiu, and will be adding some of her material. anthropology