40% Theory

Theory is pointless without getting your hands dirty.

This apprenticeship ensured that practice was the

only way to move forward. Despite having countless

theories it takes “being there” to really understand

the art and science of great fieldwork.

60 % Practice

James is a highly esteemed academic, holding

multiple degrees in Cultural Anthropology, History,

Teaching English as a foreign language, and

Education. He has recently published a book on

anthropology applied to every day life.

James Mullooly PhD

Holding a Ph.d in Applied Anthropology, he has

done 10 years+ fieldwork in Thailand, Cambodia,

Vietnam, and China. He has a B.S in Asian Studies

and is the Co-director of the Institute of Public

Anthropology.

Henry Delcore PhD

Knowing the history of social science and it’s many

epistemologies along with the ontological

implications gives you a foundation on which to go

about doing ethnographic fieldwork.

FIELDWORK

SYNTHESIS

CURRENT THEORY LECTURES

BY CHRISTIAN MARK RAMSEY | GLOBAL ETHNOGRAPHER AND ARCHITECT

ANTHROPOLOGIST APPRENTICESHIP

2.5 Year ApprenticeshipSpending the last (2.5) years as an apprentice under esteemed anthropologists Henry Delcore

PhD and James Mullooly PhD, I've had the pleasure of diving deeply into foundational social

and cultural anthropology, deciphering multiple different epistemological and ontological

perspectives within and outside of the social sciences, while also being able to apply my

knowledge rigorously on several ethnographic projects.

MENTORSHighly esteemed Anthropologists and professors

creating an ambitious apprenticeship with great

depth in the practice and theory of social science and

design thinking.

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20+ Articles Written50+ Books Read10+ Ethnographic Projects

BASIC SLIDES SECTION

While some projects lasted only a few

weeks, others lasted over a year utilising

different methods to make sense of a piece

of the world that we hadn’t known before.

Learning is at the heart of the

apprenticeship, practice balanced with

mentor and self reflection combined with

deeper readings seem to be the most

reliable way to advance the apprentices

skills and knowledge.

Writing is a process of synthesis, and when

you are doing 8 hours of ethnographic

research a day and reading Pierre Bourdieu,

it’s possible that you’ll find writing a

natural tool to direct your ideas and

observations.

From the produce aisles of central California, to the “authentic” barbershops on South street in Philadelphia, the anthro

apprenticeship carved a journey that was shaped by strategy and mediated by the surprises of everyday life. A rigorous

journey, saw the clashing of theory and practice which resulted in a robust programme that came alive across two countries,

12+ cities, living in the photos, countless field notes, conversations, and life experiences that can’t be forgotten. From the

frustrating days of attempting and failing to gain access to the NFL’s top executives, to the days where early research based

design prototypes resonate with a late sample of people, this journey is what makes the anthropologist.

An Anthropological Adventure

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Areas of Study

Main Areas of Study:

Celebrity Status Systems, Mind-Body Problem in the NFL,

Structure vs. Agency in the NFL.

Sub-Areas of Study:

Epistemology, History of Science, Duality, Embodied

Cognition, Situated Cognition, Masculinity in Society,

Threshold Mapping, History of Science, Homelessness,

Epistemology, Synthesis, Design Thinking, Grounded Theory,

and more.

01Me doing some immersion before our team synthesis (2013)

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Project Topics

Main Topics:

Homelessness, Professional Sports (NFL), Masculinity in

Sports, Celebrity and Status SystemEpistemology of Validity

based Research Methods (Focus groups), Technology in

Society, The Mind Body Problem in Sports (The where is

cognition happening?)

Sub-Topics:

Chinese F1 Immigrants Coping in the US, Paradigm Shifts in

the "Programmers world”, The Cultural Experience of a

Barbershop (multisite) , The Commodity problem in Fresh

Produce

02Me at a produce farm in central California doing ethnographic research (2013)

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Skills Developed/Used

Ethnography, Fieldwork, Qualitative Analysis, Synthesis,

Matrix Mapping, Threshold Mapping, UX Evaluation, UX

Prototyping, Design Thinking, Transcription, Triangulation,

Grounded Theory, Conversational Analysis, Cognitive Bias

Identification, Ideation, Brainstorming, Design Research,

Wire-framing, Adductive/Inductive Thinking, Reframing,

Behavioural Mapping, Personas, User Stories, Simulations,

Phenomenon Modelling.

03Me with a Chinese family writing field notes in Philadelphia (2014)

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Current Areas of Interest

Embodied and Situated Cognition, Embodiment, and

Computational Social Science

“I’m interested in how our “bodies” are involved in our day to

day activities, much of digital ux escapes having to think

about the “body” but instead they use primarily cognitive

methods (cartesian) to understand users. “

In computational social science, it’s all about modelling social

phenomena with x amount of features and attempting to

generate new understandings that we may have not found

through regular ideation or synthesis methods.

04Me at the farm in California (again) (2013)

T H A N K Y O U

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