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A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Remote fieldwork: tech considerations

Posted by: John Fenn

My colleague here at the American Folklife Center, Michelle Stefano, offered an opening post for this series on remote fieldwork by reflecting on the relationships sitting at the core of ethnographic documentation. In many ways her post explored the “why” behind conducting remote fieldwork, even when it might feel challenging or discordant in comparison to …