Fieldwork

The experience of undertaking fieldwork while it can be both professionally and personally enriching, can also come with a range of challenges that are often compounded by issues of intersectionality. It is the discussion of fieldwork experiences, both beyond and between various disciplines, that form the basis of these modules that can be used to run a workshop. Ultimately, the aim of these modules is the help students prepare for their own fieldwork by leading them through a set of structured readings, discussions and activities that allow them to consider: (a) their unique field site, (b) their positional location in relation to the field, (c) structures of power between the field and the academy, (d) violence in the field and the politics of representation, (e) how to move towards the field, with awareness.

Navigating the Field is an online web resource for graduate students built by Siobhan McDonnell (ANU) and Annie McCarthy (UC). This website consists of a series of ‘modules’ and readings designed to help prepare students for fieldwork.

Australian Journals

• Anthropological Forum

• Oceania

• The Australian Journal of Anthropology

• The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

• Australian Aboriginal Studies

Australian University Departments and Centres

• The Australian National University: Anthropology Program

• The Australian National University: Anthropology, School of Culture, History & Language

• The Australian National University: School of Archaeology and Anthropology

• The Australian National University: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

• The Australian National University: Centre for Native Title Anthropology

• The Australian National University: Centre for Visual Anthropology

• The Australian National University: National Centre for Indigenous Studies

• Charles Darwin University: Northern Institute

• Curtin University: Anthropology and Sociology

• Deakin University: School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• James Cook University: Social Sciences Department

• La Trobe University: Humanities and Social Sciences

• Macquarie University: Department of Anthropology

• Monash University: Anthropology Program

• The University of Adelaide: Discipline of Anthropology and Development Studies

• The University of Melbourne: Anthropology and Development Studies

• The University of Newcastle (Australia): School of Humanities and Social Science

• The University of New South Wales: Sociology and Anthropology

• The University of Queensland: Anthropology

• The University of Southern Queensland: Anthropology

• The University of Sydney: Department of Anthropology

• The University of Western Australia: Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology

Museums

• Australian Museum: Foundation of Anthropology Collections

• The University of Queensland: Anthropology Museum, School of Social Science

• The University of Sydney: The J.L. Shellshear Museum of Physical Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy

• The University of Western Australia: Berndt Museum of Anthropology

Government

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

• Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority

• Native Title Anthropologist Grants Program

• The National Native Title Tribunal

• The Strehlow Research Centre

• The Torres Strait Regional Authority

Professional Societies and Associations

• American Anthropological Association

• Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand

• Anthropological Society of South Australia

• Anthropological Society of Western Australia

• Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria

• Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania

Useful Links

• Australian Legal Information Institute: Legal Database

• List of Anthropology Blogs

• List of Open access Anthropology Journals

• The Aurora Project