Mysteries reside in the humblest, everyday things

Collaborative anthropology in the digital age

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Author:
Michael Stewart UCL – Anthropology m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12041
Keywords:
collaborative anthropology; visual anthropology; mass observation; methodology; documentary film
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MyStreet is an internet‐based collaborative anthropology research project combining digital recording, Google maps and visual‐ethnographic research. It aims to generate a space for a series of ‘minor’ discourses in which ‘venatic’ evidence (Carlo Ginzburg) holds sway. I examine this project and its preliminary outcomes as a revival of the spirit of Mass Observation, a British social movement of the 1930s. Though originally rejected by the Anthropological academy, Mass Observation's extraordinary vision of a democratic ‘science of ourselves’, to be realised through the creation of a popular anthropology of everyday life, remains as relevant today as it was in 1937.

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Research Article
Page Count:
16
Keywords:
collaborative anthropology; visual anthropology; mass observation; methodology; documentary film
Print Publication Date:
01 Aug 2013
Online Publication Date:
01 Aug 2013
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© European Association of Social Anthropologists 2013
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