Cosmopolitan methodology: Implications of the ethnographer’s multiple and shifting relationships in studying ethnic tourism

In its most characteristic form, the method of ethnography involves ‘the ethnographer participating, overtly or covertly, in people’s everyday lives for an extended period of time, watching what happens, listening to what is said [and] asking questions’ (Hammersley and Atkinson 1995: 1), related to the issues that are the focus of the research. As such, personhood is one of the most important methodological ‘tools’ of anthropologists.