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Kuliah Lapangan Antropologi Dapat Apa?

Mas kalau masuk Antrop ngapain aja?  Gali kuburan?  Ilmu perbintangan ya?  Kalau lulus jadi apa?  Masih mengalami berondongan pertanyaan di atas? sabar jelaskan dengan pelan-pelan dan tabah. Antropologi adalah ilmu yang unik dan asyik jika kita menjiwainya. Lulus 13 tahun yang lalu sampai hari ini kerap mendapat pertanyaan serupa. Apalagi saya termasuk sarjana antrop yang masih bergelar S.Sos. setahun setelah itu (2008) yang lulus dapat gelar S.Ant. (gelar yang lebih merepresentasikan bahwa telah melewati kawah candradimukha antrop).  Trinil 2003  Apa asyiknya kuliah di antrop? Jawaban pertanyaan ini tentu beda di setiap generasi. Jaman selepas jadi maba dan diinisiasi saya menghadapi realita baru pembelajaran yang jauh ketika masa SMA. Ada mata kuliah Prasejarah dengan dosen yang nyentrik, berkacamata tebal jenggotan dan bisa merokok di kelas. Itulah asyiknya kuliah di FISIP era itu, kelas belum ada AC. Absen masih manual lihat nilai belu...

Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm

Author(s): Terry Williams Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2017 ISBN: 0231177909,9780231177900 "Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeen Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, the sociologist Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with objective sociological analy...

Making Homes : ethnography and design

Author(s): Pink, Sarah Series: Home Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Year: 2017 ISBN: 9781474239141,1474239145,9781474239158,1474239153 Making Homes: Anthropology and Design  is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home. Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics – ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture – and confront the challenges of a research and design environment which seeks to bring about the changes required for a sustainable, resilient, 'safe', and comfortable future. Written by leading experts in the field, the book draws on real-life examples from a ...