OSEA-CITE: Ethnography of the Future / Interdisciplinary Cultural Anthropology / Study Abroad

OSEA PROGRAMS
Spring Writer’s Workshop
Summer Field School
Winter Quarter Program

OSEA’s programs are accredited through the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán.

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The Open School of Anthropology and Ethnography is a non-degree, school “without walls” that provides advanced training for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Ethnography Writer’s Workshop (May 30—June 27, 2004)
The OSEA Ethnography Writer’s Workshop is a unique opportunity for sustained and engaged reading, editing and constructive commentary on your writing by colleagues
and experts dedicated to helping you realize your publication goals in a small group setting. (For graduate students, professors and professionals.) Inquire on space available. More »

OSEA’s Field School Programs
Our programs are ideal for students in anthropology, Latin American studies programs, cultural studies and related humanities fields who want an intensive field research experience. The program combines classroom based seminars on topics in cultural anthropology and ethnography with experiential learning at different heritage sites and with fieldwork experience conducting independent ethnographic research. Conversational courses in Spanish and Yucatec Maya language are offered.

Summer Field School (7 Weeks, July 4—August 17, 2004)
Applicants receive notification of decision within one week of receipt of completed application. Inquire on space available. More »

Winter Quarter Study Abroad Program (January 5—March 23, 2005)
Concurrent enrollment with the University of Washington available. Inquire as to other institutional enrollment options. More »

IF: Interview Forum
A new journal that publishes firsthand materials from ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews, field notes, narratives, as well as audio and visual materials, that provoke critical questions, debates, thoughtful interrogation of assumptions and that evoke new ways of thinking and doing ethnography. The journal will begin publication in the spring of 2005. More »

ONGOING PROGRAMS
The MIRA Project—Multimedia Interdisciplinary Research in Anthropology
(2004–2005)
A collaborative and collective interdisciplinary research project with the School of Art and Art History of the University of Florida. More »

The OSEA Programs are intellectual, research, and training programs that are usually not offered in the institutional setting of the university. Many of OSEA Training Programs are unique opportunities for intellectual growth, experiential learning, and development and simply cannot be replicated in the university context nor in any other cultural location.

OSEA Sponsors the following
IF: InterView Forum
The online peer-reviewed journal on Fieldwork. More »

The Public Meanings of Archaeology
An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Archaeologists and Ethnographers.
Wenner Gren co-sponsor.
Chichén Itzá, June 2005

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