tribal education, the field, knowledge production, giving back
When I began this blog, it was intended to focus on traditional medicine/healing practices that I had done ethnographic work on over the last few years, especially in Turkey, a place not often associated with this subject in the same way as, say, Peru or West Africa have been. And, in my writing process, I am still working on that subject. Now, the second part of the blog's intention had been to write about "real life" and to rub the edges around what is truly "field work," what is "fiction" and what is real life - a typical subject in what has emerged as a postmodern ethnography/anthropology since the late 80s/early 90s. I intended to write about this using a language of interest and accessible to both experts and people new to the subject, so relatively jargon-free. Since September of 2016, I have been working in the tribal education system, a form of university and college level pedagogy that is funded and maintained by the US federal governme...