An ethnography is a scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures. In this assignment, you will write an ethnography about a vernacular aspect of your own culture or subculture. This differs from a biography which is a simple account of ones life. In this assignment, the subject of ethnographic description is you as a member of the culture you belong to. As a geographic authoethnography spatial themes of place and space should also be present.
Trace your own ethnobiography through a particular vernacular aspect of your culture. Discuss how the cultural geography has helped shaped who you are as a member of that culture (and, if you wish, who your ancestors were). Trace the significant influences the vernacular phenomenon has had on you and your identity. Detail how this aspect of your culture is produced, reproduced, and consumed in everyday ways. How was it transmitted to you and how did it become part of your everyday life? Essentially, what is the significant meaning?
