Inquiry
Anthropology
Other people’s ordinary days, taken seriously enough to write down.
It shares a method with oral history, sociology, and any museum that lets a community correct the label.
Fieldnotes are the craft. The theory is what you earn after the notes.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside anthropology reads “ordinary days, written down.” It tends to meet oral history, sociology, and museums.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra. Read it beside anthropology: Experiments, not moods, are how a new working life becomes believable.