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This paper shows how we can use the Introduction of Bronislav Malinowski's The Argonauts of the Western Pacific in our research today, a century later. In this specific case, and going through a double commemoration in 2022, I explain the logic with which I structured an ethnographic method class in April 2021. I did so by taking advantage of a subject that was foreign enough to my students, prompting them to raise questions and to understand the structure, the imponderabilia of real life and the natives' mentality. In my own case, the natives are the real Other of the Argentine academia: the military sailors of the Argentine Navy, with whom I tried to understand how they experienced the Anglo-Argentine conflict for the Malvinas/Falklands and other South Atlantic Islands (1982). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some ideas related to the difficulties that may happen during the fieldwork and that may urge us to improvise in order to be able to continue with our ethnographic research. However, these decisions must consider the implications of improvisation in terms of knowledge production and specifically in methodological planning. To support these reflections, presents a fieldwork situation in which digital narratives were useful for rapport and to complement the field data. Thus, a remarkable aspect is that the reflection on improvisation in our ethnographic practice can lead us to an intentional experimentation that helps us to enlarge the robust methodological baggage of ethnography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper presents a reflection on the ethics of ethnographic research in so-called virtual worlds or cyberworlds. Based on my own experience in second Life, there, Onverse and twinity, issues related to transparency, presence, privacy and anonymity are discussed. Although research in cyberworlds shares some ethical problems with traditional and virtual ethnography, they present new difficulties and ethical dilemmas during fieldwork that should be identified and analyzed from a critical point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses digital technologies from an anthropological perspective, concentrating on ways in which cultural diversity, social inequality and the possibilities of change and social transformation have been discussed. We examine the ways in which the digital domain has been conceived, categories used to describe processes of change and continuity in everyday life, and the impact of digital technology on these. This approach leads us to question up how ethnographers have explored the relationships among local practices, global transits and digital technologies, and the material and visual aspects of the digital in cultural production and media communication. Finally, we discuss how to incorporate digital technologies in ethnographic practice and anthropological knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]