The politics of independence and technological objects: Michael Fischer learns to use a Gandhian spinning wheel of self-reliance. Ahmedabad, Gujurat, India, 1984. (Image courtesy of Susann Wilkinson.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Joseph Dumit
Prof. Michael M.J. Fischer
MIT Course Number
STS.360
As Taught In
Spring 2003
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course is a practicum-style seminar in anthropological methods of ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Depending on student experience in ethnographic reading and practice, the course is a mix of reading anthropological and science studies ethnographies; and formulating and pursuing ethnographic work in local labs, companies, or other sites.