What are the main elements of an ethnographic writing style? How are ethnographic texts normaly 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 approch to culture and ethnography would you draw on? Malinowski? Mead? Geertz?
