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New directions in ethnographic methods [1]

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Date: 2026-03 

This course is led by Professor Sandya Hewamanne, from the department of Sociology and Criminology at The University of Essex.

Sandya is an experienced ethnographer who has conducted ethnographic research for over 20 years. She has extensive experience in participant observation, in-depth interviews and other ethnographic tools. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and economic anthropology, and she has published widely in leading academic journals, three books and one co-edited volume.

Her books Stitching Identities in a Free trade Zone (2008: University of Pennsylvania Press); Re-Stitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Neoliberalism, Gender and Politics of Contentment (2020: University of Pennsylvania Press) and Sri Lanka’s Global Factory Workers: (Un)Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society (2016: Routledge) are being taught at universities throughout the USA in ethnographic methods courses.

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