Abstract
Filmmaking is a central part of my ethnographic practice. Film is not just an end product of ethnographic research but is also a method to address certain arenas of inquiry and, as I discuss elsewhere, an important part of my analytic approach. While researching the supply chains of alpaca wool garments for ethical fashions in Peru, I moved camera and notebook on hand between indigenous artisanal workshops in the Andean highlands, development spaces that promoted fashion as development, and Peruvian high-fashion worlds. Here I share my fieldnotes, visual and written, and discuss the process of working across both registers or ethnographic fieldnote taking.