Tag: Ethnography

  • Nation & World

    ‘To understand the world but also to change the world’

    Arthur Kleinman pays tribute to beloved student with new class that explores wide-ranging intellectual contributions of Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer.

    5 minutes
    Paul Farmer (right) and Arthur Kleinman were photographed circa 2019 in the faculty room at Gordon Hall.
  • Nation & World

    From the islands to the bayous

    A Harvard grad student’s research on Canary Island descendants in the U.S. grows into a photo exhibit and book.

    3 minutes
    Delacroix Highway, La. Photo by Anibal
  • Nation & World

    Learning about research

    Nearly 150 Harvard undergraduates spent 10 weeks last summer learning the nuts and bolts of academic research — from ethnography to techniques for culturing living tissue — with faculty in three immersive programs.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    6 minutes