Events FY2025
| Date | April 26, 2025 11:00-18:00 |
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| Venue | Seminar Room 6, National Museum of Ethnology |
| Detail | What is the role of place-based research in an era of online archives and libraries? How has the work of anthropologists and historians been altered by digital tools and sources? Does the speed with which we can gather data limit the time we take to look at, and learn about, evidence? To what extent have the shrinking budgets and diminishing time allocated to research visits contributed to a dearth of experiential observation? While scholars now enjoy unprecedented international mobility (at least in the ‘Global North’), they have used this mobility to swerve away from research that is guided by, and rooted in, an extended experience of place. The resulting loss of material knowledge and local connection deeply affects the balance between familiarity and strangeness that is so central to both anthropology and history. However, so far, this is a shift which has passed largely un-noticed. Our workshop aims to bring together anthropologists and historians from geographically and temporally distinct fields to discuss place-based research in our respective disciplines. Our aim is to reflect on the relationship between non-textual and textual sources, to establish a new debate on the importance of experiential observation (notably under-theorized in history), and to create strategies to restore the role of learning in, and from, a place. Organised by Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology Co-organised by Indian Ocean World Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology Maritime Asian and Pacific Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology East Eurasian Studies Project at the National Museum of Ethnology |
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