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Morgan: How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight?

The cover image of the Ergene River Basin is particularly effective for this essay in how it depicts the messiness of placeness. Without the caption, the viewer may recognize that this is an aerial image, or perhaps instead see it as a microscopy slide, as I first did. The bluriness and monochromicity of the image distorts scale in a manner not unlike that of toxics. 

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