Experience-rich anthropology

ERA Winter School 15-17 January 1999

Aim

ERA is a HEFCE-funded project (part of the FDTL programme) which seeks to make available to anthropology students a wider range of teaching materials than has been available through conventional publishing. This includes previously published anthropological analysis and some of the field data upon which that analysis was based.

To disseminate our work further we held a three-day winter school Kent from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 January 1999 (inclusive). In the first instance we invited teaching staff who wanted to work on their own research material in order that it can be used in teaching.

The winter school introduced the work of the ERA project and participants learnt how to produce hypertext versions of their own textual materials, sound recordings, photographs and video. During the three days participants were encouraged to re-explore their own materials to produce electronic teaching materials.

List of participants and links to what they produced in three days work

Michael Whyte	Rice growing in Nyole, Eastern Uganda
Rachel Baker	Representing 'street children' (Nepal)
Hazel Tucker	TOURISM ANTHROPOLOGY. A case study in Goreme Village (Central Turkey)
Loiuse De La Gorgendiere	An introduction to village technology in Ghana
Dorothy Kennedy	Ditidaht Canoes (British Columbia)
Jean Lydall	Hamar ethnography
Iain Edgar	Dreamwork in Anthropology
Fiona Bowie	A return fieldtrip to Cameroon
Sarah Pink	Carnival in Guinea Bissau
Jonathan Skinner	Anthropology of the island of Montserrat
Quentin Gausett	Masks, the dead and bush spirits among the Wawa of Adamawa, Cameroon

Reports on the Winter School and photos of the participants will shortly be available!