ant307:人种学田野学校

This spring semester students will participate in equity focused research through the Rapid Ethnographic Assessment (REA) method working with local organization(s) and their communities. Data will be collected to help in problem solving emerging needs and associated policy decisions. 采取行动使人类学非殖民化, shifting power dynamics into the hands of the community/stakeholders. Practical skills employed in data collection may include digital study, 叙述映射, 拦截调查, 参与观察, 积极倾听, 以及深度访谈. Students will transcribe interviews, participate in field work debriefings, 分析(编码), 以及报告写作. REA is a team-based form of research where students will be involved in all aspects from data collection to report writing. As this is a field course, 150 hours are required to fulfill the course requirements. (Appropriate IRB approval will be obtained prior to the start of research activities.)

2024年春季, ANT 307 will meet on Monday through Thursday, 下午9:00-3:00在Allendale校区.

ANT 307: Archaeological Field School

Campus Archaeology: Blendon Landing
Project Director: Steven Dorland, Ph.D. 工程学院 & 工作人员:Heather VanWormer博士.D., & 韦斯利·杰克逊.
教师, 工作人员, and students explored field techniques and laboratory methods in this multi-faceted field school experience.  Students will learn shovel test pit data collection, 单位挖掘, 工件和数据收集, cataloging artifacts and mapping on the historic Blendon Landing Lumber Community. Students will also explore the colonial history of the lands and engage with community members whose ancestors have remained connected to these lands for thousands of years.

2022年民族志田野学校

Anthropologists have studied festivals since the discipline's very early days, from Mardi Gras and Carnaval to Holi, el Día de los Muertos, 火人节和科切拉音乐节. The 2022 field school researched a festival that has been an essential part of the Grand Rapids community for over 50 years, 艺术节. The Festival of the Arts is held downtown in early June each year and combines visual arts, 现场音乐, literature and multicultural food booths in an annual event that the Library of Congress has recognized as the largest all-volunteer arts festival in the United States. Students conducted ethnographic fieldwork, 包括调查, 焦点小组, interviews and participant-observation, to enhance Festival organizers' own understandings of the makeup and motivations of the volunteers who make Festival happen.

2021考古实地学校

The 2021考古实地学校 explored the history of the Eastmanville Farms Park. 现在一个 渥太华县公园, this property was once home to the 渥太华县贫困农场. The Poor Farm was established in 1866 with the goal of providing needy residents a home while they aided in working the land. The farm provided social services to residents in various capacities until 2000.

If you have any questions please email Gwyn Madden ((电子邮件保护))或Heather Van Wormer ((电子邮件保护))

2019年民族志田野学校

The Anthropology summer ethnographic field school 2019 explored patterns of substance use among GVSU students. The field school was designed to provide training in the application of research methods. Students learned 参与观察, 人种学调查, 开放式的访谈, 社会的映射, 焦点小组讨论. The final product of the field school, a working paper with recommendation for administration, was submitted to  the ACES program to understand and improve services for students.

教练:博士. 克里斯汀·赫奇斯((电子邮件保护))

2018年西密歇根考古

West Michigan Archaeological Field School
Focus of the 2018 GVSU field school will continue work begun in 2006 exploring landscape use and Pre-Columbian contact occupation along the Muskegon River in the area of the Muskegon State Game Area. Over 70 years of archaeological research in the area yielded evidence of occupation by Native Americans for at least 5,000年.  This field school will train students in a variety of archaeological field methods including pedestrian, 铲测试, 地理信息系统与地球物理测量, 测试开挖, data recording and preliminary analysis of remains from a variety of sites including an earthen enclosure, 村庄遗址, small camp sites and cache pit sites.

Dates:  First 6 weeks Spring term May 7-June 19

出国留学-乌克兰人类学

Borshchiv,乌克兰 — The study abroad program in Ukraine is designed to educate students about the relationship between the environment and human beings. The courses will focus on how human activity has been shaped by the environment, as well as how humans have re-shaped the environment. Ukraine is a place where human and environmental interaction has experienced dramatic change several times throughout history, from the first farmers in the region to the 1986 tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Courses in the program will highlight the crucial parameters of our interaction with nature, which shape both our biological and social development. The “Culture and Environment” course (part of the Man and Environment theme requirement) will be devoted to the study of human impacts, variability of experience in different environments, and environmental determinants of human cultures.

时间:6月30日- 8月3日