East Anglia Research Station Project
January 2000
As of the fall of 1999, East Anglia Research Station Project began its tenth year. The project, fondly known as EARS, is run by Professors Chuck Frake and Joanne Coury during the summer months in Norfolk, England. The primary purpose of EARS has been to offer students a chance to do some short-term ethnographic research, gaining practical experience in ethnographic methods without having to learn a foreign language, prior to dissertation fieldwork. Some students have used their data for a Master's project.
EARS offers facilities and contacts for studies in ethnography, local history, archeology, ecology, linguistics, local politics and policy, social services and architecture and planning, among other topics. Department faculty participating in the EARS project has established ties with the University of East Anglia as well as Cambridge University, University of Leicester, and University College London.
Given the strong anthropological interest and research in Europe (the Society for the Anthropology of Europe is now the largest area subsection of the American Anthropological Association), the department now offers Europe as a research area supported by courses in European culture, history and archeology. The EARS project is part of this effort and while not currently providing funding, offers counseling and assistance in identifying grant opportunities in the countries of West and Central/Eastern Europe.
Want to know more?
If you would like to know more about this project, or have any suggestions of comments, please contact Joanne Coury, EARS Administrator, using the following form, or by email: jmcoury@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Last modified: Feb 23, 2000