Urban ethnography

Hello bloggers!
Today i'm gonna write you about the most interesting subject of this semester and it's called urban ethnography. The class is imparted by 3 different teacher: Paola Jirón, Walter Imilan and Carlos Lange, it has place on the Titanic (the F tower of the FAU) and it's after my General Formation Course of table tennis at 3 o'clock on Tuesday until 6 pm, just before Afro dance. It's interesting because they makje us read ethnographies written in different seasons and guide us in the process of becaming an ethnographer. I like it because is a very practical subject and it's important to participate to learn and realize all the practical activities that we do every class. It'll be useful in my professional life to understand other's opinion understanding their reality and participating in their lifes while the attention is put in the observation, imparcial and objective.
Last class, we had to write an essay that tried to approach the most it could to an ethnography. I talked about the public transport and how people behave when the use it, making a difference between bus, subway and interurban buses. Also, we had to read one of the first famous ethnographies made by Malinowsky, a french that travelled to New Guinea and studied the original people that lived there. Now, we are now reading a text of Wacquant called "Between the ropes" and the difference between these two text it's incredible and itshows somehow the advance of the antropology and sociology with the use of an instrument that was used with the object of comprehension for dominance (antropology's sin) to the comprehension of a cosmovision in orden to improve their conditions of life and have a empiric proof of their situation, I liked a lot the text of Wacquant, it's almoust a novel and very easy to read!
I totally reccomend the elective and i hope you like it too if you ever get to course it.
Cheers!