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1 Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 16(1) 2013 Figure 1: (TCD MS 10961/4/12r) Philip Lavelle Irish Journal of Anthropology Anthropological Association of Ireland Volume 16(1) 2013 Inside: Ethnography from Margin to Centre: Celebrating 25 years of the Anthropological Association of Ireland Figure 2: (TCD MS 10961/4/5v) Anthropometry on Inishbofin Fig. 1: Central Colleges of the Philippines’ Billboard Advertisement (4 April 2007) Author’s Photograph Figure 7 Figure 3: (TCD MS10961/5/17r) This was St Patrick’s Day, it was so beautiful. I love the way they were dressed, and the colours, the colours of the flowers and the kids from different places. Emmanuelle General Editor: Fiona Larkan Guest Editors: Alan Grossman, Fiona Murphy, Sabina Stan Volume 16(1) 2013 ISSN: 1393-8592 Irish Journal of Anthropology Th eIrish Journal of Anthropology is the organ of the Anthropological Association of Ireland. As such, it aims to promote the discipline of anthropology on the island of Ireland, north and south. It seeks to provide coverage of Irish-related matters and of issues in general anthropology and to be of interest to anthropologists inside and outside academia, as well as to colleagues in a range of other disciplines, such as Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Ethnology and Folk Studies, Gaeilge, Irish Studies, and Sociology. Editor: Dr Fiona Larkan, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin. [email protected] Associate Editor: Dr Fiona Magowan, School of History and Anthropology, Th e Queen’s University of Belfast. [email protected] Editorial Assistants: Richard Fitzpatrick: richiefi [email protected] Tara Walsh: [email protected] Editorial Advisory Board: Dr Dominic Bryan, School of History and Anthropology, Th e Queen’s University of Belfast Dr Anthony Buckley, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down Dr Keith Egan, Independent Researcher, Galway Anthony Kelly (Postgraduate Representative) NUI Maynooth Dr John Nagle, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of East London Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Dr Séamas Ó’Siocháin, Anthropology Department, NUI Maynooth Dr Carles Salazar, University of Lleida, Spain Professor Ida Susser, Th e Graduate Centre, Th e City University of New York Professor Elizabeth Tonkin, Oxford, England Book Review Editors: Dr Fiona Murphy, Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth. fi [email protected] Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis, Department of Music, University College Cork, Ireland. [email protected] Irish Language Editors: Dr Steve Coleman, Department of Anthropology, NUI Maynooth. [email protected] Finances: Th erese Cullen, AAI Treasurer, 25 Ava Ave., Belfast BT7 3BP, Co. Antrim. [email protected] Membership Secretary: Siún Carden [email protected] Th eIrish Journal of Anthropology appears twice a year, in Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Members of the AAI receive the journal as part of their membership subscription. Information about membership can be found on the AAI web-site: www.anthropologyireland.org Advertising Rates: Full Page: €100; Half Page: €60; Quarter Page: €40 Irish Journal of Anthropology Vol. 16(1) 2013 Spring/Summer Table of Contents Front Cover Photographs Notes on Contributors Articles 6 Alan Grossman, Fiona Murphy and Sabina Stan Introduction: 25th Anniversary of IJA and Conference 8 Anne Byrne and Deirdre O’Mahony Revisiting and Reframing the Anthropological Archive: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936) 16 Ciarán Walsh Charles R. Browne, The Irish ‘Headhunter’ 23 Clíona O’Carroll Public Folklore Operating between Aspiration and Expediency: The Cork Folklore Project 30 Fidel Taguinod An Autoethnographic Journey: Nursing, Migration and the Reflexive ‘I’ 37 Zoë O’Reilly Imaging Experience: Working with Asylum Seekers in Ireland through Participatory Photography 47 Anthony Kelly Doing it Digitally: Methodological Tensions in Online Ethnography 54 Sabina Stan Interview with Prof. Michal Buchowski, April 2013 60 Jaime Rollins McColgan and Síun Carden 25 Years of Anthropology in Ireland 63 Cormac Sheehan, Sheena Cadoo and Audrey Russell Finding Clarity in Dementia and the Need for the Professionalization of Ethnography in Ireland Book Reviews 69 Michael Jackson, Between One and One Another (Amit Desai) 70 Mark Maguire and Fiona Murphy, Integration in Ireland: The everyday lives of African Migrants (Evanthia Patsiaoura) 71 Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley, The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age(Kate Kirk) 4 Irish Journal of Anthropology Volume 16(1) 2013 Front Cover Photographs (clockwise from top left) ‘Browne family’. Photograph courtesy of Trinity College Dublin (TCD MS10961-5 0036) ‘Michael “the judge” O’Donoghue’. Photograph courtesy of Mary Moroney (see page 9) ‘Central Colleges of the Philippines’ Billboard Advertisement (4th April 2007)’. Photograph courtesy of Fidel Taguinod (see pages 30/31) ‘Browne in lab with skull’. Photograph courtesy of Trinity College Dublin (TCD MS10961-5 001) (see pages18/19) ‘Opening a Cist Grave, Wicklow’. Photograph courtesy of Trinity College Dublin (TCD MS 10961-5 0031) ‘Kimball’s Pipe. Left with the Moroney Family’. Photograph by Ben Geoghegan, courtesy Deirdre O’Mahony/X- PO 2008 ‘Installing the archive’. Photograph by Jay Koh, courtesy of Anne Byrne 2008 (see page 10) ‘Arensberg’s field diary’. Photograph courtesy of Anne Byrne (see page 8) ‘This was St Patrick’s Day, it was so beautiful’. Photograph by Emmanuelle, courtesy of Zoë O’Reilly (see page 43) Notes on Contributors Alan Grossman is Director of the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice (www.ctmp.ie) in the Dublin Institute of Technology, and is a non-executive Director of Pivotal Arts (www.pivoralarts.org). He has a longstanding visual ethnographic involvement with the cultural politics of identity, migration and diasporic formations across infra and transnational contexts; from the perspective of the minority Welsh-language resistance movement in Wales, to Kurdish refugee music in Scotland in the form of a short performative documentary film Silent Song (2000, UK, 15 mins), to his co-directed ethnographic film projects Here To Stay (2006, Ireland, 72 mins) and Promise and Unrest (2010, Philippines, 79 min). He has published in numerous refereed journals including Space and Culture, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, and is co-editor with Aine O’Brien of Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (2007, Wallflower/ Columbia University Press), a combined book/DVD engaged with questions of mobility and displacement through the analytical prism of creative practice. Fiona Murphy is an anthropologist working in DCU business school. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the marketing department and is working on a number of projects in the area of sustainability. She received her PhD in 2009 from the Department of Anthropology, NUIM, and is co-author of Integration in Ireland: The Everyday Lives of African Migrants (Manchester Uni Press: 2012). Sabina Stan is lecturing in sociology and anthropology at Dublin City University, Ireland. She completed her PhD at the Universite de Montreal, Canada, on the post-socialist transformation of the Romanian countryside. Her post- doctoral work tackled healthcare reform, with a focus on privatization and the use of information technologies. Dr. Stan’s current research interests moved towards the link between migration, healthcare and citizenship from a political economy perspective. She has published L’agriculture roumaine en mutation(CNRS 2005), and articles on post-socialist transformations, healthcare reform and informal healthcare practices in journals such as Dialectical Anthropology Anthropologica and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her co-edited volume Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership was recently published by Routledge (May 2012). Personal webpage: http://www.dcu.ie/info/staff_member.php?id_no=2632 Anne Byrne is a sociologist teaching and writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway (see http://www. nuigalway.ie/soc/staff/byrne_anne.html). Anne is inspired by narrative and visual inquiry, community based research methodologies, biography and the creative force that comes from the juxtaposition of history and story, image and text, art and ethnography. Epistolary narratives and the consequences of anthropological and other representational practices are an ongoing interest; working with the field diaries and archives of the Harvard-Irish Mission to Ireland (1930-1936) are a current preoccupation. Anne is a member of the Social Sciences Committee (Royal Irish Academy), the Gender ARC NUIG/UL research consortium (http://www.genderarc.org/) and is a founder member of the Narrative Studies Group at NUI, Galway. Recent publications are concerned with issues of identity, gender, stigma, rural community relations, participative research methodologies and creative pedagogies. Deirdre O’Mahony is an artist and lecturer in the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and recently completed her PhD at the University of Brighton. In her latest research she has been exploring three themes, all arising from her earlier work on the perception and representation of rural landscapes. This concerns first, the mechanics of belonging in rural communities, secondly, the creativity of tacit, practice-led knowledge and thirdly, the relational dynamic between the local/rural and the national/global. Public art projects include SPUD