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Discussion on Ethnography

Section 1: INTRODUCTION

She stresses on the prominent zone of the rainforests of Indonesia, where in 1980's, and the 1990s industrialist interests ever more reshaped the countryside not much through commercial design as through the stupid chains of legal and illegal capitalists that extorted the land from earlier claimants, generating capital for distant markets. In reaction, ecological movements arose to protect the rainforests and the society of concerned people who exist in them. This story is no doubt the one for us, teaching us how to deal with the issue and do whatever it takes to save our planet. Not restricted to a rural community, a province, or a state, the communal drama of the Indonesian tropical forest consist of local and state environmentalists, global science, North American shareholders, supporters for Brazilian rubber tappers, some people living in mountain, UN agencies, some village elders, and city students, among others. They all combined with unpredictability, untidy confusions and misunderstandings that on occasion work out. Given the methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how creative cultural differences are in the clutch of worldly wise encounter, and how much is ignored in contemporary theories of the global interconnections are.

Section 2: METHODS

As it's the truth what she has done, she made a tremendous effort to show the whole Indonesian story with beautiful sum of incidents and places where they actually happened. She typically used a smart approach in portraying the incident, by posting some interviews and some geological facts. She started it beautifully and ends it very dramatically. The way she portrayed the false elements and showed the real faces of world's well wishers is excellent.

Anna's ethnographic discussion is her ability to express several incidents of events, from Meratus Dayak seniors to environmentalists of Indonesia, from their businessmen to clients in “IKEA”, from the KDA (Korean Development Company) to Freeport of “McMoRan”, that every person and institute realize & narrates in their own way. In fact, Tsing illustrates that these institutions and their people understand events and misunderstand one another in various manners. Despite of such controversies, the misunderstandings are creative, producing the social fact i.e. the Indonesian forest. The story is too bold and the story is completely a lesson for the present world. The short discussion on this book is as follows

Section 3: CONTENT

Friction is an exploration of immense thoughts (i.e. portability and the connectivity of universalisms) & a story of ecological tragedy in Indonesia (mainly South Kalimantan) instantaneously before and after the collapse of Suharto in the year 1998. This tale is revolving around friction & awkward, unstable, unequal and creative stance, Tsing inspects the junction of the universalities, personal & natural made environments & globalization. Like ethnography, Tsing's account truly derives from scraps of temporary fieldwork, other types of encounters (for e.g. attending a conference on worldwide environmental change). Anybody thus expecting something beside the classic ethnography book focused on the facts of social life will be really dissatisfied, but it's not ...