1.Compare travel as a means to acquire knowledge as it is used differently, in Levi Strausss Tristes Tropiques and Anna Tsings Friction

you need to read these two ethnograhies and then start this essay topic.

1.Levi Strauss, Claude. 1961 Tristes Tropiques trans. John Russell, New York: Criterion. https://archive.org/details/tristestropiques000177mbp (You might want to purchase a different edition. This one is free from the OAP of books past copyright, which is found at Archive.org)

2.Tsing, Anna 2004. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.