ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how collecting narratives can be interrupted by both space and personal reasons or relationships. George Marcus emphasizes the narratives approach whilst conducting research in multiple sites. In the first section I will show how the idea is to pull from field material some sort of multi-sited ethnography that is more theirs. And they (the respondents) are reporting from their experience. I will then show how ‘An Imagined Homeland in California’ brings out ethnographic features of the Bangladeshis. Unlike other Bangladeshi communities in the US, central LA has a designated area on Third Street, popularly called ‘Little Bangladesh’ as a symbol of an ethnic identity. By providing ethnographic detail, the chapter will show how the Little Bangladesh area has become a place-making, rather than place-marketing, part of everyday life (e.g. life appears to go beyond business-oriented physical infrastructure).
