Description: Discuss any three of the four ethnographies that you have read this semester along with any secondary readings on the nature of ethnography, in order to answer one of the following questions in 4000 words. 1. Discuss uses of evidence in three or ethnographies, and its importance to each author’s main argument.
2. Discuss comparison as an analytic device in three ethnographies, and show how it advances each author’s central argument and/or theme.
3. The perspective of ‘the other’ in anthropological research has been a consistent benchmark of ethnographic practice, albeit with interesting variations over the history of the discipline of anthropology (Fabian 1983). Compare the successes and failures of establishing ‘the point of view’ of the ethnographic research subject.
4. Anthropology has been deeply tied up with the question of how to address global history. What cautions do you propose to researchers seeking to bridge global history and local knowledge of global history?