Those Moments Sketching : New Essentials From Apprenticeship-Based Fieldwork

This article sheds light on sketch drawing within ethnographic apprenticeship, using the author’s sketches of a traditional hunter-gatherer practice in northern Japan as examples. By examining both the process and products of fieldwork, the unique and dynamic characteristics of sketching are showcased. Sketches can amplify and abstract, shift perspectives, suspend articulation, draw attention to the absent, and share new imaginations. The article emphasizes that the time lag found in between the moment to be sketched, the moment sketching, and the moment to view the sketches is essential to the methodological foundations and possibilities of sketching.