@article{481fb420a7a44501a5cf5ab90533bdc4,
title = "Ethnography with Love and Duende: The Promise of Ethnography in a Democratic Society (On Receiving The CAE 2016 George and Louise Spindler Award)",
abstract = "This article is a slightly edited version of my invited award talk, delivered just days after the presidential election, when I received the George and Louise Spindler Award at the annual business meeting of the Council on Anthropology and Education, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2016. In those first days after the election we were all stunned and trying to understand what the new Trump era would mean and how we as educational anthropologists would go forward with our continued efforts to conduct research that contributed to a more democratic and just society. Grave concerns, renewed determination, and an abundance of emotion were prominent in shaping my remarks that night.",
keywords = "Ethnography, and “duende”, democracy, love",
author = "Perry Gilmore",
note = "Funding Information: I fell in love in the 70s! I fell in love with ethnography. I fell in love with the Hymesian commitment to reinvent anthropology in order to create a better world (Hymes 1969) and to use ethnography “as a gain for a democratic way of life” (Hymes 1982, 22). But mostly, I fell hopelessly, madly, and breathlessly in love with David Smith—who singularly embodied all of that. (For a fuller discussion of David{\textquoteright}s life and work, see Gilmore and McDermott 2006.) At the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s, David was the director of the Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) with co-directors John Szwed, Dell Hymes, and Erving Goffman (see Smith 2002). In response to concerns about campus unrest, educational inequality, and civil rights struggles, the Center found an interdisciplinary home for the scholarly work of these like-minded colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania who were all deeply committed to using ethnography to address the daunting urban issues of inequality, desegregation, and racial injustice in an era of political turmoil, anti-war protests, and heartbreaking assassinations. In 1969 the Center was established with a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health{\textquoteright}s Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems. The impetus for the Center{\textquoteright}s work seems hauntingly similar to challenges we face today in the midst of the trauma of our current political climate in this post-election era. Though Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 by the American Anthropological Association",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/aeq.12224",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "349--353",
journal = "Anthropology and Education Quarterly",
issn = "0161-7761",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "4",
}