2017-2018-1

DACSz-22-1

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

DACSz-2, From Field to Archive

DACSz-2, From Field to Archive

Néprajzi és Kult. Antropológiai Tanszék (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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From field to archive
dr. Sándor Varga
Module Rationale
This module will provide new opportunity for the students to conduct fieldwork, to register, systematise and enter the material into an archive. It will include using a variety of documentation techniques, including a selection of interview techniques, participatory observation, filming, sound recording, photographing and other. Students will read and discuss further academic works in colloquia connected to then- field and archiving practice. They will carry out a real fieldwork project in groups and individually choosing techniques appropriate for each project. The students will work with exercises on searching hi archives. They will then register and archive the material they documented in a real archive in the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and have practice in developing databases on dance. The students will learn how to prepare a database with all the source materials they have collected. It will comprise all the field logs, photos, transcribed interviews, a set of archival registrations etc. made by them or found in the archives or in the literature being relevant to the thee of their dissertation. They will write an essay on the whole process, applying literature on fieldwork and archival techniques and principles.
Key texts
BUCKLAND, Theresa ed.
1999 Dance in the field: theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography. Macmillan, Basingstoke
LAWLESS, Robert – SUTLIVE Jr., Vinson H. – ZAMORA, Mario D. ed.
1983 Fieldwork. The human experience. Gordon and Breach, London