Ethnographic representations should graphically illustrate elements of culture or aspects of the anthropological junctures of human group life as art forms through artistic likeness or in other ways. The representation can use different production techniques. One may try to depict something; i.e. represent pictorially, as a collage for instance. The depiction may typify events, places, practices, values, traditions, cultural interchanges or salient cultural characteristics. Ethnography can also be produced as theatre or as dance or drama where actors take the place of people and events in the field in relation to a political issue. This is advocacy. One acts as a delegated authority with an intention to make statements that can influence future opinions or actions. Nonetheless, ethnographic representation is still very much about writing in a research context as part of the production system of higher education for merit purposes. These publications form a point of integration into a broader research society. But because of their characteristics, as somewhat dry and cleansed presentations, some things may be lost. The present contribution to the symposium explores issues of the politics of representation in ethnography.