3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. acknowledgments ix
4. introduction Analysis as Experimental Practice 1
5. Contributors 1
6. PART I BODILY PRACTICES AND RELOCATIONS
7. 1. Tactile Analytics: Touching as a Collective Act 15
8. 2. The Ethnographic Hunch 30
9. 3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects 41
10. 4. Juxtaposition: Differences That Matter 53
11. PART II. PHYSICAL OBJECTS
12. 5. Relocating Innovation: Postcards from Three Edges 69
13. 6. Object Exchange 82
14. 7. Drawing as Analysis: Thinking in Images, Writing in Words 94
15. 8. Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible 106
16. PART III. INFRASTRUCTURAL PLAY
17. 9. Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives 123
18. 10. Multimodal Sorting: The Flow of Images across Social Media and Anthropological Analysis 133
19. 11. Categorize, Recategorize, Repeat 151
20. 12. Sound Recording as Analytic Technique 163
21. PART IV INCOMMENSURABILITIES
22. 13. Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) 175
23. 14. Excreting Variously: On Contrasting as an Analytic Technique 186
24. 15. Facilitating Breakdowns through the Exchange of Perspectives 198
25. 16. Analogy 209
26. 17. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices 219
27. 18. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working toward Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Troubles 235
28. 19. Not Knowing: In the Presence of . . . 246
29. afterword 1 Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making 257
30. afterword 2 Where Would You Put This Volume? On Thinking with Unruly Companions in the Middle of Things 262
31. references 267
32. contributors 287
33. index 295