Anthropology changes as the world changes.

More and more people

are on the move, socially and geographically, and culture articu-
lates in a contexture of different local and global socio-economic
and political processes with different geographical origins, speed,
range and transformative powers. How should one combine local-
ized ethnographic eld research, which is achieved through intima-
cy of everyday social life over a long period, with the study of the
mobility of individuals and society? The course offers critical ap-
praisals of various methodological options to study the mobility of
people, objects and ideas which may require, or not, the researcher
to be mobile too.
The course is designed for PhD students who plan to or have re-
cently carried out ethnographic eldwork. The aim is to consider
systematically the link between methods and theory, and specif-
ically, what methods are most productively employed to address
the theoretical questions workshop participants seek to develop
and answer.
Participants will be expected to submit a draft of their paper by 1
October 2014. This will allow papers to be pre-circulated to and
read by participants prior to the workshop. Participants are re-
quested to present their papers at the workshop.
There is no course fee; however participants are expected to cover
their own travel and accommodation expenses. Because space is
limited, early registration is highly recommended.
The course is equivalent to 10 ECTS. Evaluation: Essay. Submission
and approval of essay are required to get the credits. The essay
must relate to own ethnographic research material and deal broadly
with the subject matter discussed in the course. The essay should
not exceed 8 000 words (excluding bibliography and notes). Dead-
line for submission of essay is 1 January 2015.
Those responsible for the course are Michael Herzfeld (Harvard
University), Noel Salazar (University of Leuven), and Jan Ketil Si-
monsen (NTNU).
For more information about the course content, please contact
course coordinator: jan.ketil.simonsen@svt.ntnu.no
Required background reading
Gupta, A., & Ferguson, J. (Eds.). (1997). Anthropological locations:
Boundaries and grounds of a eld science. University of California
Press
Herzfeld, M. (2005). Cultural intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation
State (Second Edition). Routledge.
Lindquist, J. A. (2009). The anxieties of mobility: Migration and
tourism in the Indonesian borderlands. Honolulu: University of Ha-
waii Press
Mbemb, J. A. (2000). At the edge of the world: Boundaries, terri-
toriality, and sovereignty in Africa. Public culture 12(1): 259-284.
Moore, H. L. (2004). Global anxieties: concept metaphors and
pre-theoretical commitments in anthropology. Anthropological
Theory 4(1): 71-88.
Salazar, N. B. (2013). Anthropology. In P. Adey, D. Bissell, K. Han-
nam, P. Merriman & M. Sheller (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of
mobilities (pp. 55-63). London: Routledge.
Registration
Please register to: Ingrid Lehn, by 1 September 2014
E-mail: ingrid.lehn@svt.ntnu.no
Phone: +47 735 96 581
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
NTNU DRAGVOLL
N-7491 TRONDHEIM
Nordic Research Course in Social Anthropology
CULTURAL INTIMACY AND MOBILE ETHNOGRAPHY
Trondheim, Norway, 23 25 October 2014