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begin your essay with introductory paragraph that briefly identifies a social problem or issue on which you think that ethnographic research and writing would she new light. The first paragraph should be nor more that a half page. about ethnic. Projects that don’t involve ethnographic research in cluding coduction long term particpant observation with one group.2: then discuss how you are and your attitude toward the social problem will affect the type of reserach you conduct, for example in what ways are you similar or dissimilar from the group you wish to stud? are you native anthropologist of “halfie” like Abu-Lughod? would you take an activist stance on your issues, as Bourgois and Holmes did? in other words, how might who are you are shape the things that you find and interpretation. Select the ethnographer we have read in class that conducted the type of ethnographic research you would like to do( not necessarily the same question or the same part of the world, but rather how they went about doing their research. For example, would conduct 2-3 day interviews with any individuals who fill different roles in their community, as Shostak did? or would you hang out in public places, as Khosravi amd Bourgois did? or would you live with a family for extended period of time to witness their most intimate moments, as Abu-Lughod did ? or will will your study be most like holmes’ research, in which con you conduct research in multiple sites to better understand a mobile population? compare and contrast your plan with the practices with those of just one or the maximum of two anthropologist we have studies whose methods and most closely represent what you would like to do to understand your issue. There should be some evidence that you though through what type of information you are hoping to get, and what sort of methods might be most useful in getting that information ( for example do not tell her about that you will in a single family to understand what goes on in a public school classroom is not appropriate. If the essay that do’t engage with the issues of ethnographic research and knowledge we have covered in class will not get a good grade. Finally interview done on National Public Radio (NPR) with a Saudi Araba woman poet competing in a show that are similar to America Idol , but for her she had to do Bedouin style poetry not singing. Compare and contrast the woman highlighted in the interview with most devout practation of islam.
Interview by Saba Mahmood why so they choose to wear a veil or it is not a choice/ Concept of agency, hegemony, domination, structalism or orientalism. How is the competition is an example of globalization of localization Structure individual in control of our own action and destiney The book are Govering Indenous Territories, Veiled Sentiments, Fresh Fruits broken bodies, Nisa , In Search of Respect, the Young Defiant of tehran.