 Experimental ethnographic methodsCarlos Diz and Eleder Piñeiro Aguiar Chapter 10 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 2026, pp 71-78 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Experimental ethnographic methods are ways of doing and thinking about fieldwork that promote creativity and ethnographic imagination in changing contexts. In this entry, firstly we discuss experimental ethnographic methods in the tradition of social and cultural anthropology. Due to their proliferation, their openness and their transversal and interdisciplinary aspects, however, we also draw on human geography, sociology, science and technology studies and the arts. Secondly, we present the contemporary paradigm of collaborative work, and its effects on knowledge production, as a characteristic sign of experimental methods. Lastly, linking the dynamism and the flexibility of ethnographic experimentation to the multi-sited and shifting nature of our times, we argue that itinerant ethnography is an ethnographic invention that experiments with the field and relationships with others through mobile spatio-temporal transformations, favouring an ethical and methodological displacement of/in the field. Keywords: Ethnography; Experimental Ethnographic Methods; Itinerant Ethnography; Collaborative Turn; Experimental Collaborations; Mobilities (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21471_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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