Ethnographic paper
For this paper, you will mimic Horace Miner and take an ethnographic approach to your own everyday reality. Select a site that you regularly spend time in and have not thought twice about; then attempt to look at it from afar as a stranger. For those of you who live on campus, this might be a location.
For others, an off-campus spot such as the grocery store might be an option. In your paper, discuss the specifics of the site, such as rules of access, proper conduct etc. This requires a detailed description of the space, an explanation of what goes on in this space as well as the interactions that seem to take place seamlessly among individuals.
In other words, you are expected to take this site that you take for granted (the familiar) and demonstrate how ‘strange’ it might be for an outsider. If you want, you can also discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the culture of the location you are writing about, from how individuals access it to what they do in it.
Your analysis should demonstrate that you understand cultural relativism.
