Topic: Passive observation.

Place: Plaza Area.

It was Sunday evening 4:20pm, doing our regular class Anthropology (101). On that day we have been
made up a group of 5 people and placed different group in different places to observe students of the
university elements as well as people’s activity which needed to be relatable with cultural anthropology.
Somehow our group placed in the most crowed and historical place of the University- The Plaza Area.
For some various reason student named this place as the heart of NSU.

As I’m the researcher also analytics so I observed form the Etic point of view, and tried to relate with
cultural anthropology.

At 4:50 pm on that day we all ran to the place as we had limited time to do our work. First thing that I
felt over there was a homely environment. Before observing people activity, I tried to crack the amazing
architectural design of that place. The floor decorated with alpona’s for upcoming Bangali Cultural event
“Boshonto”. This is the place where University placed the maximum program/events. Those alpona
shows the symbolic culture of Bangali. The most interesting part that I saw was, the place organized
different types of cultural activities i: e: Chinese language day, Pohela boishak, Valentine’s day,
shoroshoti puja etc. Both of them are from two different cultural activities its shows mixed cultural
activities which denote Culture is shared. Culture over there is encompassing which means its changing
with time. People over there were so much adaptive to cop-up with these different cultures. Then again
it is flanked by two ten-storied structures-the North Academic Building (NAC) housing the Schools of
Business, Arts & Social Sciences and the Confucius Institute and the South Academic Building (SAC)
where the Schools of Engineering & Applied Sciences, as well as the School of Life Sciences, are located.
Some people said that NAC and SAC have rivalry and others meant it covered a North and South portion
of culture. But Bangali culture mostly found over there i: e Boys lounge and Girls lounge is situated in
there opposite distance and we Bangali’s always tried to kept distance with each other and make it in
their comfort zone. The stage of the plaza area meant the symbol of an educational institution. And on
that stage our University events mostly organized. Form the middle of the plaza area I can watch the
maximum portion of University, even the one an only connector of NAC and SAC building is also known
as NAC & SAC bridge. In the front side, Admin building was situated and it’s the most attractive and
beautiful place of this university. Board of trustees and other admin workers have their palace over
there and its departed form the academic building. From my right and left side both structured the same
10th-floor building and it contains some posters and banners which shows the recent activities of the
university. I saw a poster of Blood Donation event by the pharmacy club of NSU also some business
competition events and seminars. On that month the whole country was in the mood of festive because
of Bongobondhu’s 100 years Birthday celebration. NSU also made a huge banner for 7 th march speech of
Bongobondhu, father of our nation, just to memorize his role and what he did for our country. After
that, I noticed a small booth where polar company promoting their brand by selling their products. It's
not very rare that branded company came to NSU and sell their product, and it's not free either.
Basically, they sponsor university club activity and they got the chance to promote themselves and
selling their foods. It shows the activity of Business and Media Anthropology. Mankind beliefs the most
what they can see by his/her own eyes and for that they prepared a physical stall (visual) which is also a
sub-field of Anthropology.
After observing the physical attributes, I urged to watch people’s activity. It’s a crowed place and most
of them standing with their groups. Each group contain maximum 4 people. Everyone was gossiping and
having their time with their closet friends. A very few people running straight through the exit as its was
the last hour of that day. It found interesting to me that there were two kind of people, one of them
where interested to pass their time by gossiping and others want to go home early for their own will.
There was an exceptional group of people who were sitting inside a booth for recruiting member to their
club. These club people tried to find a few specific and qualified people. I found it hard for the other
who didn’t get the chance to work with those people and they never got the chance to explore new
culture and new activities. The sun was about to set and few group of boys and girls going to there own
lounge for prayer as most of the students were Muslim they got the chance to pray in time but other
religions couldn’t get the opportunity and in my perspective its wrong and over here Muslim is the
dominant culture. Most interesting thing that caught my mind was people’s dress-up. Everyone has the
opportunity to wear their chosen dresses. Maximum wearing western dresses.