TRANSFORMING ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE
University of Wisconsin Press (2012)

In this volume, the ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures—fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue—are now being adapted for a broad array of applications, such as business, conflict resolution and demobilization, wildlife conservation, education and biomedicine. In Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge, anthropologists trace the changes they have seen in ethnography as a method and as an intellectual approach, and they offer examples of ethnography’s role in social change and its capacity to transform its practitioners.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Hardin is an associate professor in the Environmental Justice field of study at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. She also teaches courses in the Department of Anthropology (U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) and Program in the Environment (joint SNRE and LSA). She earned an A.B. degree from Brown University in its Program in Literary and Social Theory, and her M.Phil. and doctoral degrees from the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. She is coeditor of “Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form,” a special edition of the journal Current Anthropology. She joined SNRE in 2003.

Her areas of interest and scientific study include human/wildlife interactions, and social and environmental change related to tourism, logging, conservation and hunting in the forests of Central Africa. Recent projects focus on the increasingly intertwined practices of health and environmental management in southern and eastern Africa. She also studies historical and ethnographic aspects of concessionary politics involving corporations, NGOs and local communities, particularly in Africa. She advises students interested in international environmental practice and policy, wildlife management, human relationships to landscape, environmental justice and cultural dimensions of natural resource management.