ABSTRACT
Linked to theory, the methodology of studying mobilities is also a central concern. This has become a significant issue in anthropology in general, and within anthropological studies of tourism in particular. In this chapter, the author challenges the notion that ethnography is not suitable for studying global processes and mobile people and, moreover, that a globalized methodology compromises central anthropological modes of knowledge production, namely immersion. Marcus has posed one of the key solutions for studying global processes. His rearticulation of single-site ethnography to multi-sited reflects a wider shift in anthropology from notions of local subjects ‘easily located in a world system perspective’ to notions of subjects as multiply situated in contingent and diffuse social relations. Processes of localization occurred outside of intellectual categories too, in particular within mountaineering spaces in Nepal where claims to Everest are made.
