ABSTRACT
Ethnography is an eclectic methodological choice which privileges an engaged, contextually rich and nuanced type of qualitative social research, in which fine grained daily interactions constitute the lifeblood of the data produced. Ethnographers typically think of data as a gift from their informants, with all the implications of reciprocity that gift exchange implies. Telegraphically, Marcus argued that multi-sited ethnography defines as its objective the study of social phenomena that cannot be accounted for by focusing on a single site. Previously, the 'world system' was seen as a framework within which the local was contextualized or compared; it now becomes integral to and embedded in multi-sited objects of study. The essence of multi-sited research is to follow people, connections, associations, and relationships across space.
