Discuss what Monaghan and Just mean by the “ethnographic present”

Monaghan and Just talk write the perils of the “ethnographic present” as a writing style. Similarly, I argued in my lecture on a culture that using the term “culture” to refer to groups of people can make it harder to see change over time. Discuss what Monaghan and Just mean by the “ethnographic present” and then analyze the ways that two of the following readings address this problem: Sterk, “Tripping and Tripping”; McIntosh; “Maxwell’s Demons”; Lee, “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari”; Bourgois and Schonberg, “Intimate Apartheid.”