Austin Vandepoll Homework 6

Public ethnographies were designed to reach the extra-academic audience and discuss to them relevant matters of society. Like other ethnographies, the public ethnography also uses an introduction, methods, data, and conclusion section within it. Even though the sections are titled the same, they each withhold differing information from the previous three ethnographies. The sections are designed to give pictures and scenes of the specific settings and people being observed. Public ethnographies seem to be played off more as short stories with a lot of information coming from both the author and the groups that are aware of being observed. Postmodern ethnographies seem to use the most gathered information. They critique the concepts of the environment they are observing. I feel postmodern ethnographies took on a more scientific approach to observing. It became experimental and testable. They are backed up by countless amounts of information from all sorts of scholarly articles and documents. Postmodern ethnographies threw out traditional ethnographies and replaced them with out of the box thinking. They dig even deeper and further under the surface than ethnographies ever did before. The postmodern ethnographies dont have many guidelines. They will tend to shift between tenses, voices, and are practically unpredictable throughout, but at the same time they bring the reader a vast amount of important and factual information. Postmodern ethnographies seem to break topics into even smaller groups and levels before to obtain even closer analysis. Postmodern ethnographies mostly seem to try pulling apart texts and situations to get right down to the core instead of just looking on the surface. I feel like the public ethnography would work best for me personally. I may not be using actual pictures and graphs in my ethnography, but I am trying to paint a form of picture or scene with my words and phrasing. An ethnography should show a picture to people on a specific group or topic that they would have never thought of before. I have no desires of publishing or sharing any ethnographies over a vast group of people but I do feel my ethnography should still be very informative and entertaining to read. It should feel like the reader is actually there due to the amount of detail and description. I dont wish to toss in a bunch of my personal bias into the ethnography like others may do, but instead I want to let the reader identify with my observations.