There are many projects that will allow you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding in interesting ways. I often hesitate to give you examples because I don't want you to feel constrained by them so think of these as other students' interpretations of the major themes. If they help to inspire you, awesome. If they don't, no worries.
Insight-Islam (Jacob and Dylan's Documentary with Ayan Osman):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTejbNt1Gk
A beautiful and interesting take on the Interview Project:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B23qsx942S7DUzZudS1ZSnB6bDQ/view?usp=sharing
Interview project website that is super cool:
https://priyapitre00.wixsite.com/anthro
For example, here is a link to an awesome project that a student put together this last semester for her project on social control:
http://prezi.com/9zf2l_8dizlw/deviance-and-social-control/
Another wonderful example of social control filmed right here at Westview:
A Social Control project that connects to Communism and the Red Scare:
This student made a rad gender project that connects to media & advertising as well:
This student made her own entire website for the Marriage Project and included copies of the readings! (plus some great pictures):
http://marriageprojecthr.weebly.com
And then she made this for the social control/gender project:
http://genderprojecthr.weebly.com/
A super awesome film for the marriage project:
A cool interview website project:
http://katerinakzakis.weebly.com
Social Control Project plus Emile Durkheim, founder of our discipline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI3ReN-FKc
A super cool ethnographic presentation made into a website (about the Westboro Baptist Church/Phelps clan -- very disturbing):
A website on America's Next Top Model contestants made for the ethnographic project:
On Living Dolls:
https://prezi.com/cockx2xpznt4/living-dolls/
On Drag Queens:
http://prezi.com/dhfbsykn_2ha/drag-queen-culture/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email
Below is a list of former Ethnographic research paper topics. They are not meant as a list from which you should select. Rather, they are meant to encourage you to find an interesting group of your own to research.
Stage moms, Beauty pageants (toddlers), KKK, Vampyres, Cruise lines, Straight edge, Kanang Islanders, Valley girls, Parrotheads (Jimmy Buffet), World of Warcraft, Carnivale, Paranormal investigators, Portland Hipsters, Dance teams (Wildthings), High school bands, Olympians, Rajneeshee,, Portland Homeless families, College admissions boards, Women in the military, Deaf culture, Hospitals staff (esp. doctors and nurses), Trepanation, Church of Satan, Capitalists, Heavy Metal Kids, Portland Music Scene, Raelians, Online Writing Groups, LOTR “ringers”, Surfers, Skaters, Cosplay (anime kids), Children of God, MS13 gang, Millenarianism, Chistrian youth groups, Funeral directors, The San, Paris Hilton fans, Scientology, Death Rituals in America, Body Modifications, Vodun, Skull and Bones, Gore/Horror movies addicts, Drag queen makeup artists, Metalheads, “The Family” international, Otaku-Japan, Followers of Christ (local faith healing group), Tailgaters, Aum, Taggers, Car Racing (Mitsubishi Lancer), Doctors without Borders, The upper class, ChenTao (Taiwan-texas god on TV cult), Hell’s Angels, Facebook addicts, Guam – Chamorro, Kiwanis club, The Colorblind, Hip-Hop Dancers, Rodeo Queens, Shopaholics, Sneakerheads, Thai “lady boys” (transgender community), Geisha, Psychics, Portland Youth Orchestra, LARP (role-players), Radical Republicans, Twilight Fans, Twilight moms, Touring Musicians, Fandom-Comicon, Freegans, Gauvage – Mauritania, Yakuza, Holy Spirit Association (Hispanic youth), Sasquatch Hunters, Conspiracy Theorists, WHS Soc. St. Teachers, Track & field WHS, Quincinera, Kayan neck-stretching, Cheerleaders, Hoarders, Compulsive Over-Eaters, Old Order Amish, Rocky Horror, Cameron Crazies (Duke), Jocks of WHS sports, Hyphy, Harlem Globetrotters, Tanorexics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Bodybuilders, Blazer Fans, Men & plastic surgery,Hare Krishna, Portland cyclists, Beatniks, UFC fighters, Branch Davidians, ALC program (WHS), New kids at the school, Followers of Korgan, Lady Gaga worshippers, Heaven’s gate, Adrenaline Junkies, Prostitutes in Portland (and the cops who work with them), Transgender (F to M), Cannibals in PNG, Christmas Light Addicts, Competitive eaters, “free-runners”, Pool players, Los Zetas, Contra Dancers, Humans vs. Zombies players, Senior Inquiry, Text Addicts, Girl Scouts, John Frumm Cargo Cult, Male Ballet Dancers, American Belly Dancers, Troll 2 cult, Furries, Sexual reorientation therapists, Families living with an autistic child, WHS speech & debate, Roller derby, Younglife, Private schoolers, Underage cigarette smokers, Korean 3rd graders, Foodies, Gypsies, Occupy portland, the Asgarda, 501st Legion, Homestuck, Bollywood, Contortionists, Crazy cat ladies, Winco vs. New Seasons, Cabbage Patch Parents, K-Pop Stalker fans, Infidelity among Professional athletes, Doomsday Preppers, Germaphobes, Professional Tennis Players, No Shoes Nation (Kenny Chesney fans), Whovians, Trampoline & Tumbling, Portland Poetry Slam, World's Youngest Billionaires, Zumba, Portland Street Performers, Bronies, Food critics, Street Racers, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Southern Cotillions, Women on "The Bachelor", AKB48 pop idols in Japan, Hokulea Polynesian Voyage Society, Troupe 5350, Airsoft Milsim, Otherkin, the Tea Party, Ifugao, Dog Show attendees, Sentinelese (Andaman Islands), "anonymous", Small Town Kentukyians, Real Life Casts, You Tubers, Extreme Corseters, Hapendon England, Wallonia v. Flanders, Timbers Army, Kerala (India), Haunted House enthusiasts, Body Positivity Crew, Instagram Vegans, Wizard of the Lesser Rainbows, Portland Fencing Community, The All-Powerful Larrie, JSA, Sufism, Samson Cree Nation, "The Room" movie followers, We are the Eatons, collegiate Quiddich, Mukbang (Korean TV eating shows), Real Dollars, Big Wave Surfers