Assignment Instructions/ Description
Ethnography Report Due April 7th by 11.59 pm in Canvas
This assignment will have you select and read one of four possible ethnographies and then write a 1500 word report on it (this will be about 2 pages at 1.5 to double spaced). It is worth 75 points, or 15% of your final grade.
Select one of possible four ethnographies listed for this assignment in the syllabus or here further below.Read the ethnography, and as you do, take various notes as needed. Your notes should include things such as who did the research/fieldwork, why they did it (what question or issue were they attempting to explore/address), how they did the research (methodology), and what they learned about the people or an aspect or two about their culture (i.e. an aspect can be practices, customs, beliefs, norms, values, how they make a living, the structure of their families and communities, their politics, etc.).Write a report that relates/summarizes these notes and the author(s) findings or conclusions.Include in your discussion what interests you, and include what questions it prompts you to have, and discuss how it relates to various topics we have covered in class.Include in-text citations and a properly formatted reference in the format of your choosing.
Ethnography List for Ethnographic Report Assignment
Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
2009 Righteous Dopefiend. U of California Press.
[A visually stunning ethnography of how homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco fight for everyday survival. Visual anthropology; medical anthropology; applied/public anthropology.]
Briggs, Charles L., and Clara Mantini-Briggs
2016 Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice.Duke University Press.
[An Ethnographic account of the issues surrounding power, knowledge, health, and inequality in Venezuela. Medical anthropology; public/activist anthropology.]
Jason De León
2015 The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. U of California Press.
[An Ethnographic and bioarchaeological study of the human consequences of US immigration policy in the US Southwest, Ecuador, and Mexico. Political anthropology; archaeological and visual anthropology; public/activist anthropology.]
David Valentine
2007 Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Duke University Press.
[An ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Political and cultural anthropology, gender studies, public/activist anthropology.]
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