Anthropologist Michael Deguara is tomorrow giving the second in a series of three talks in Maltese on the ethnographic method in its various stages.

Tomorrow’s talk,  titled ‘The toolbox’, looks at the ways in which an ethnographer is called upon to approach social practice and look at this with new eyes, whether fieldwork is being done on the other side of the globe or in one’s own backyard.

The final talk, ‘Pen, paper, mirror’ on March 20, looks at how in gathering data and analysing it, ethnographers are themselves spinning webs of significance in a way not unlike the people they have observed in their research.

Tomorrow’s lecture is being held in the Library of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta in Tal-Qroqq at 6pm. These talks, which are part of a project of the Department of Maltese about oral traditions, are open to the public and entrance is free.