The ethnographies we have read this semester have all been based upon data collected using anthropological methodology. Yet each author has employed a variety of ethnographic research techniques in (slightly and sometimes radically) different ways to understand particular cultures. Compare and contrast the methods employed by each of the ethnographers we have read.

These are the 3 Ethnographies that were read:

1) "The Land of Open Graves" by Jason De Leon

2) "Gringo Love" by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

3) Shostak's: Nisa The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

What kinds of methods produce what kinds of ethnographic portraits? Are certain approaches better than others? In your response, be sure to consider the anthropologists' positionality and how it affects the final product (i.e. the ethnography)?