eFieldnotes: Makings of Anthropology in a Digital World

CHAIRS: SANJEK, Roger (Emeritus) and TRATNER, Susan (SUNY ESC)

ABSTRACT: Computers, digital archives, the Internet, and mobile devices are changing anthropology in significant ways, including choice of fieldwork sites, issues addressed, and
methods emploved. Theconsequences for research and thinking are still emerging, and they already affectinteractions with informants, definitions of data, and anthropology's
disciplinaryfuture. How do these new topics and methods of research result in, evennecessitate, new ways of defining, recording, storing, utilizing, and feeling about both
traditional and new forms of ethnographic fieldnotes. This panel will begin toaddress these issues from various perspectives.

Session Participants:
BURRELL, Jenna (UCB)
SLAMA, Martin (Inst for Soc Anth, Austrian Academy of Sci)
CLIGGETT, Lisa (UKY)

Session took place in Denver, CO at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Societv for Applied Anthropologv in March 2013.