Dissertation

I am busy writing my dissertation. Unfortunately, in the anthropology MA you are obliged to include "ethnography." Every time I hear that word my heart sinks. It reminds me of Bernard Lewis. Here is a simplified definition of ethnography: dividing people into ethnic groups and writing about them... and who is it that (predominantly) writes? You guessed: blonde hair and blue eyes (political!)
Now, I am writing about consumerism and mass video clips in the Arab world... and the only "ethnography" is that provided on "cattle exchange amongst the Nuer"... no, really. How am I supposed to be inspired? By cattle shit? Anthropology was and CONTINUES to be a colonial field. end of discussion.