ASSIGNMENT
What are the main elements of an ethnographic writing style? How are ethnographic texts normally organized? What makes a good introduction?
If you were an anthropologist, what culture/subculture/issue would you like to study or issue would you like to learn about? Why?
Where would you need to go to do this study?
What would the focus of your study be? Broad or narrow? How might it contribute to previous studies or knowledge?
How would you do the research? How would you get there? Where would you live? How long would you stay? What would you do in the field?
How might your personal characteristics (gender/race/ethnicity/culture) create opportunities and/or constraints in the field? How might those characteristics have impacted your choice of topic and/or your research and interpretation of results?
What are the essential elements of an effective “arrival scene”?
Whose approach to culture and ethnography would you draw on? Malinowski? Mead? Geertz?
