Marcus
How many phases are there within Marcus' multi-sited ethnographic study?
Three.
"The more marginal regions of the world are not simply data mills for the North."
Appadurai
What type of geography does Appadurai advocate a change for?
Processual geographies.
What aspect of the ethnography does Marcus wish to reclaim?
The social aspect.
"In a sense, letting constructs of the social define the ethnographic center of contemporary anthropological research insulates the interpretation of ethnological materials from essentially non-ethnographic perspectives."
Marcus.
What, according to Appadurai, resists constant scrutiny due to its role in every day academic and professional life?
Research.
What is the nature of the relationship between sites in one of Marcus' hypothetical multi-sited ethnographies?
There is little actual contact, but one site depends on the actuality or an imagined version of the other.
"The imagination is no longer a matter of individual genius... It is a faculty that informs the daily lives of ordinary people in myriad ways... often across national boundaries."
Appadurai.
It actively resists collaborations that would make it easier to understand.
What are some of the traditional things that multi-site ethnographies have been focused on?
Diasporas, trade of objects.
"The greatest of these apparently stable objects is the nation-state, which is today frequently characterized by floating populations, transnational politics between borders, and mobile configurations of technology and expertise."
Appadurai.
There is considerable consensus that what are the best efforts to globalize from below?
TANs and NGOs.
What is the third phase of an multi-sited study, according to Marcus?
The return of ethnography to the first site and allowing reinterpretation through the primary lens.
"It is the social cartography or social referents elsewhere within this imagined world of community that become particularly important."
Marcus.
Globalization is not marked by a new epoch in history or a study in economics, but what?
The new role of imagination in social life.