Ethnographers Analytical Essay

Assignment 2:  Ethnographers Analytical Essay and field journal (Your own travel story)

You are required to include at least the following in the journal:

• a map of the journey. This should be an extract (original or photocopy) from a published map of the area through which you traveled.  Be sure to include the publisher in the list of references.
• an extract printed from awebsite relevant to the area through which you travelled (or some part of the trip). This could be an accommodation outlet, a tourist attraction such as a cave, tour or museum, or from the region in general.  Be sure to include the URL on the extract and a full reference in the list of references.
• at least 3 brochuresthat ‘inform’ about actual events in which you took part or places that you actually went.

 

This journal should be submitted as an appendix to the field report and must be on the sheet(s) provided. Besides being a record of your field trip preparation and of the actual trip, this learning journal will be reflective and ‘critical’; it includes your motivationSubmit photos, drawings, maps and your rough written journal as appendices to the essay.

The written Essay should do a number of things.

• It must address the tourism (and other relevant) issues facing the site and the immediate surroundings. Your site  is the ‘case study’ you will use in your essay.
• It should be reflexive. That is, as you will have also been a tourist, you as an individual have had to reflect on the experience in your Ethnographer’s Field Journal.  You will need to analyse it and write about it.  Included here are your own experiences; what you learned from the field trip experience.  The academic literature will provide you the models and theories to undertake this analysis.  The field work was your primary data collection method.
• The essay will be read as a stand-alone piece of work so key information about the field work should be included as an Appendix (1-2 pages maximum) and as suggested below as part of the analysis.
• It should review the literature relevant to the field trip, including models useful for analysis of the site, the journey and your experience/motivation as a tourist. Think of yourself as a tourist who has made a specific selection of a trip.  Why did you choose this specific trip?
• It should not be written in the first person.
• It must be fully referenced using APA STYLE.