You don’t need to go to a remote country to use the skills of an anthropologist; in fact, there are different cultures all around you at this very moment. College campuses include a huge variety of cultures, all of which can be studied by means of ethnographic fieldwork. Student organizations such as fraternities and sororities, and religious and ethnic groups, can be considered cultures.

Write a plan for conducting ethnographic fieldwork within your own community. What culture, other than your own, would you study? What preparation would you do for your fieldwork? What strategies would you employ in your fieldwork? Would you use participant observation to collect data? What kinds of analysis would be appropriate for the data you have collected? Consider your fieldwork carefully, including what effect it might have on you. Submit a 2 page written proposal for fieldwork to your instructor. Please write as an essay in 12 point font and double-spaced.