Fieldwork methods and the experience of working collaboratively

Fieldwork methods and the experience of working collaborativelyLuke Eric Lassiter & Elizabeth Campbell

Other Side of Middletown book project . . .

Other Side of Middletown Photography Project . . .

Collaborative Ethnography

Collaborative Ethnography “deliberately and explicitly emphasizes collaboration at every point in the ethnographic process, without veiling it—from project conceptualization, to fieldwork, and, especially, through the writing process.”

Collaborative Ethics Ethnographic Honesty Accessible Writing Collaborative

Reading, Writing, and Co-Interpretation

OSM Collaborative Ethnography

• Student-Advisor Teams• Participant – Observation /

Observant - Participation• Reading & Researching Texts• Interviews / Conversations• Collaborative

Reading/Interpretation

Excerpts from “Middletown Redux”

On Field Conversations

On Student Writing

On Discussing Texts

On Relationships