Write a 1500-word reflective essay in which you look back at the research process answer all of the following (please do not number your answers, just write an essay in which you take them all into account):
1. Introduce the reader to your neighborhood. Be as geographically specific as possible (neighborhood, borough/county, boundaries, important street names, city if outside NYC, etc.).
2. What research problem could you begin to explore based on the preliminary data collected in your assignments? What major themes, issues, situations, or problems facing the neighborhood’s residents kept coming up as you conducted your observation and searched for an ethnographic article?
3. How did the methods used (observation and library research) help you gain a deeper understanding of life and culture in this neighborhood?
4. What three concepts discussed in class (do not use ‘city,’ ‘urban,’ ‘culture,’ ‘anthropology,’ ‘ethnography’ or any aspects of methodology such as ‘interview’ or ‘observation’) could be most useful for understanding life and recent change sin this neighborhood?
5. What did you learn? (From your research? From the course? This question is intentionally broad: you decide what’s important).
Make sure to cite each and every source that you use anywhere in the Reflection, including the source from your Ethnography Review, and at least two sources defining the three concepts you choose to apply.
***I have already written about my neighborhood, which is attached***
