“Conversation on the Egyptian Revolution: Fieldwork in Revolutionary Times” is one article, in a series, that was written a year after the 2011 January 25 Revolution in Egypt. In this article, author Yasmin Moll reflects and explores some conflicting thoughts that went through her mind as she participated in the event as both an Egyptian woman and as an anthropologist. She realized that the January 25 Revolution was a historic event for her country. Moll and many others during the uprising “created a personal record” (para. 1) by filming the incident. As she became more involved with the filming in the Tahrir Square, she realized that this type of fieldwork was creating something more to tell than what was currently being told by the mainstream
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(para. 8) This was the ‘meta’ story. She pointed out that the reality was that only a small representation of the Egyptian people that actually showed up in Tahrir Square. (para. 8) This error was being shared globally as fact. Her edited film would show a different part of the story. Moll made a decision to distribute her edited film in a very non-traditional anthropological manner. She wanted the effect of what she was sharing to be current and have some sort of power that would not have been achieved if she had used more traditional avenues. (para. 3) Historically, anthropologists have done their fieldwork in isolated sites. If this event had taken place 100 years ago, it would have been weeks or even months before far off parts of the world was aware of it, if ever, they did become aware. However, in today’s world, news travels as it is happening. In “Cultural Anthropology”, Michael Ficsher is quoted as saying that:
Contemporary ethnographic research must rework traditional notions of comparative work for a world that is both increasingly aware of difference and increasingly shaped by widespread social forces. (Schultz, 2015 pg.
(para. 8) This was the ‘meta’ story. She pointed out that the reality was that only a small representation of the Egyptian people that actually showed up in Tahrir Square. (para. 8) This error was being shared globally as fact. Her edited film would show a different part of the story. Moll made a decision to distribute her edited film in a very non-traditional anthropological manner. She wanted the effect of what she was sharing to be current and have some sort of power that would not have been achieved if she had used more traditional avenues. (para. 3) Historically, anthropologists have done their fieldwork in isolated sites. If this event had taken place 100 years ago, it would have been weeks or even months before far off parts of the world was aware of it, if ever, they did become aware. However, in today’s world, news travels as it is happening. In “Cultural Anthropology”, Michael Ficsher is quoted as saying that:
Contemporary ethnographic research must rework traditional notions of comparative work for a world that is both increasingly aware of difference and increasingly shaped by widespread social forces. (Schultz, 2015 pg.