On Friday, November 1st, anthropology graduate students convened for the third session of the “Ethnographic Archivings” fall 2024 workshop series. This workshop session was led by Elizabeth Davis, Zeynep Gürsel, and Martha Sandweiss. In the first part, Professor Gürsel presented a behind-the-scenes look at how visual archives and visual ethnography entail "looking together" as method. Professor Davis presented the process of her archival and documentary research from her book Artifactual. The discussion engaged with the materiality of photographs, the evidentiary nature of visual material, and process of working with and through visual archives as ethnography. In the second part of the session, students went to the Special Collections of Firestone Library where Professor Emerita Martha Sandweiss and Librarian Gabriel Allen Swift presented photographs and visual archives from the Early American Collections. 

The fourth and final session of “Ethnographic Archivings” takes place on November 8th and will be a two-part series led by scholars Diana Allan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill Univeristy, Elizabeth Ellis, Associate Professor of History at Princeton, and Ikaika Ramones, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton. This session is titled “Archival Trails.” The first half of the session will feature a documentary film by Diana Allan, and the second half will involve a conversation with Ikaika Ramones and Elizabeth Ellis.

This workshop series is organized by Nikita Taniparti G2.