Anna Bloom-Christen
Biographic Data
| ID | 125731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Bloom-Christen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloom-Christen |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOM-CHRISTEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1123-3374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confronting the dark matter of Higher Education
This paper explores the structural and ideological constraints that militate against the trust required between teachers and students for effective teaching and learning in contemporary South African universities and beyond. The first part of the paper addresses how widespread commercialisation and precarity born of scarcity, in addition to other widely explored issues relating to the legacy of apartheid and colonisation in South Africa, foster d…
What's (in) a Vignette? History, Functions, and Development of an Elusive Ethnographic Sub-genre
Despite their great diversity, most anthropologists would agree that they recognise a vignette when they see one. What, then, is a vignette? By untreading etymological and historical origins of the vignette in anthropology, we discuss its development since it first entered ethnographic texts. We argue that vignettes were long treated as tokens of effeminate textual embellishment, therefore missing systematic methodological attention. We then show…
In the slipstream of participation
This chapter discusses the issue of participation in the history of anthropology, examining how participant observation was employed and conceptualized at its origins and engaging anthropology’s own understanding of its defining methodology. It presents a set of interrelated core concepts for anthropological methodology. The chapter considers intention as a way of framing attention in its potential form, and highlight problems with an overemphasi…
What's (in) a Vignette? History, Functions, and Development of an Elusive Ethnographic Sub-genre
Despite their great diversity, most anthropologists would agree that they recognise a vignette when they see one. What, then, is a vignette? By untreading etymological and historical origins of the vignette in anthropology, we discuss its development since it first entered ethnographic texts. We argue that vignettes were long treated as tokens of effeminate textual embellishment, therefore missing systematic methodological attention. We then show…
In the slipstream of participation
This chapter discusses the issue of participation in the history of anthropology, examining how participant observation was employed and conceptualized at its origins and engaging anthropology’s own understanding of its defining methodology. It presents a set of interrelated core concepts for anthropological methodology. The chapter considers intention as a way of framing attention in its potential form, and highlight problems with an overemphasi…
What's (in) a Vignette? History, Functions, and Development of an Elusive Ethnographic Sub-genre
Despite their great diversity, most anthropologists would agree that they recognise a vignette when they see one. What, then, is a vignette? By untreading etymological and historical origins of the vignette in anthropology, we discuss its development since it first entered ethnographic texts. We argue that vignettes were long treated as tokens of effeminate textual embellishment, therefore missing systematic methodological attention. We then show…
Confronting the dark matter of Higher Education
This paper explores the structural and ideological constraints that militate against the trust required between teachers and students for effective teaching and learning in contemporary South African universities and beyond. The first part of the paper addresses how widespread commercialisation and precarity born of scarcity, in addition to other widely explored issues relating to the legacy of apartheid and colonisation in South Africa, foster d…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Aeronautics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Distrust (1 work) · Diversity (politics (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)