Doing ethnographic fieldwork in a remote location? You need the Powerfilm AA Solar Charger (Coming Soon) When I began my PhD at Peking University, my initial research topic was not about the meihuaquan martial arts traditions of north China. Rather,…
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MaxQDA Review: A definitive solution for qualitative research (coming soon) Research during my MA and PhD research in rural north China (1990-2014), I accumulated hundreds of interviews with villagers, martial arts masters, traditional doctors, businessmen, influential rural women, teenagers and…
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PhraseExpress Text Expander Efficiency- finding the right tools More than 2 years ago, I had heard about how using text expander software can improve one’s work efficiency by reducing reducing repetitive typing tasks during an average workday. For some reason,…
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The following is only a mini-review. A more in-depth review is in progress. Keep checking back! Have you ever opened your computer at a coffee shop, a hotel room, or at the airport only to find all of the electrical…
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The ability to edit PDF documents is essential for researchers today. Reading, adding bookmarks, notes and adding highlighting to PDF format articles and books is a daily part of my workflow. While a variety of different PDF readers are available…
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TheSage TheSage is a cross-referenced dictionary and thesaurus that allows users to see the relationships among words and provides an impressive range of examples showing how words are used. This tool has been around since at least 2006, and has…
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Organizing old Photographs, negatives and slides- A Researcher’s Guide to Slide and Negative Scanners Full multi-part article coming soon. Since the 1990s, I have been working on a number of research projects on the rise of civil society and folk…
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Dawn Technology di-GPS Eco ProF unit for Nikon SLR cameras In a previous article, I discussed the utility of having latitude and longitude locational metadata (also referred to as ‘geodata’) embedded in photographs. For me, understanding the spatial relationships in…
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Anthropologists and social scientists will often conduct ethnographic research at more than one field site over the course of several years. If photography and videography are an important aspect of your field research methodologies, you will soon acquire a large…
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I first realized the advantages of Personal Information Manager (PIM) software while working as a researcher and writer at the University of Regina. I began using Microsoft OneNote to assist with the preparation of reports and encyclopedia articles. OneNote was…
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