Array ( [0] => {{short description|Systematic study of people and cultures}} [1] => {{Distinguish|Ethnology}} [2] => {{for|the academic periodical|Ethnography (journal){{!}}''Ethnography'' (journal)}} [3] => {{multiple issues| [4] => {{research paper|date=February 2020}} [5] => {{More citations needed|date=August 2020}} [6] => }} [7] => {{Anthropology|methods}} [8] => {{Research}} [9] => [10] => '''Ethnography''' is a branch of [[anthropology]] and the systematic study of individual [[culture]]s. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of [[social research]] that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior. [11] => [12] => As a form of inquiry, ethnography relies heavily on [[participant observation]]—on the researcher participating in the setting or with the people being studied, at least in some marginal role, and seeking to document, in detail, patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants, and to understand these in their local contexts. It had its origin in social and cultural anthropology in the early twentieth century, but spread to other social science disciplines, notably sociology, during the course of that century. [13] => [14] => Ethnographers mainly use [[Qualitative research|qualitative]] methods, though they may also employ [[quantitative research|quantitative data.]] The typical ethnography is a [[holistic]] study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the [[Physical geography|terrain]], the [[climate]], and the [[habitat]]. A wide range of groups and organisations have been studied by this method, including traditional communities, youth [[gang]]s, religious [[cult]]s, and organisations of various kinds. While, traditionally, ethnography has relied on the physical presence of the researcher in a setting, there is research using the label that has relied on interviews or documents, sometimes to investigate events in the past such as the [[NASA]] [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|''Challenger'' disaster]]. There is also a considerable amount of 'virtual' or online ethnography, sometimes labelled [[netnography]] or [[cyber-ethnography]]. [15] => [16] => ==Origins== [17] => [[File:Gaius Cornelius Tacitus.jpg|thumb|The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a prolific ethnographer in antiquity]] [18] => The term ''ethnography'' is from [[Greek language|Greek]] ({{lang|grc|ἔθνος}} ''éthnos'' "folk, people, nation" and {{lang|grc|γράφω}} ''gráphō'' "I write") and encompasses the ways in which ancient authors described and analyzed foreign cultures.{{sfn | Almagor | Skinner | 2013 | p=}}{{sfn | Redfield | 2019 | p=}}{{sfn | Skinner | 2014 | pp=171–203}}{{sfn | Redfield | 2019 | p=}}{{sfn | Woolf | 2011 | p=}} Anthony Kaldellis loosely suggests the ''[[Odyssey]]'' as a starting point for ancient ethnography, while noting that [[Herodotus]]' ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' is the usual starting point; while [[Edith Hall]] has argued that Homeric poetry lacks "the coherence and vigour of ethnological science".{{sfn | Almagor | Skinner | 2013 | p=6}}{{sfn | Kaldellis | 2013 | p=vii}} From Herodotus forward, ethnography was a mainstay of ancient [[historiography]].{{cite book | last=Dench | first=Emma | title=A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography | chapter=Ethnography and History | publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Oxford, UK | date=2017-09-12 | doi=10.1002/9781405185110.ch51 | pages=471–480| isbn=978-1-4051-8511-0 }} [19] => [20] => [[Tacitus]] has ethnographies in the ''[[Agricola (book)|Agricola]]'', ''Histories'', and ''[[Germania (book)|Germania]]''. Tacitus' ''Germania'' "stands as the sole surviving full-scale monograph by a classical author on an alien people."{{cite book | title=Rethinking the Other in Antiquity | chapter=CHAPTER SIX. Tacitus on the Germans | publisher=Princeton University Press | date=2010-12-31 | doi=10.1515/9781400836550.159 | pages=159–178| isbn=978-1-4008-3655-0 }} Ethnography formed a relatively coherent subgenre in Byzantine literature.{{sfn | Kaldellis | 2013 | p=vii}} [21] => [22] => ===Development as a science=== [23] => {{see also|Off the verandah}} [24] => While ethnography ("ethnographic writing") was widely practiced in antiquity, ethnography as a science ([[cf.]] [[ethnology]]) did not exist in the ancient world.{{sfn | Almagor | Skinner | 2013 | p=133}} There is no ancient term or concept applicable to ethnography, and those writers probably did not consider the study of other cultures as a distinct mode of inquiry from history.{{sfn | Almagor | Skinner | 2013 | p=2}} [25] => [[Gerhard Friedrich Müller]] developed the concept of ethnography as a separate discipline whilst participating in the [[Second Kamchatka Expedition]] (1733–43) as a professor of history and geography. Whilst involved in the expedition, he differentiated ''Völker-Beschreibung'' as a distinct area of study. This became known as "ethnography", following the introduction of the Greek neologism ''ethnographia'' by Johann Friedrich Schöpperlin and the German variant by A. F. Thilo in 1767. [[August Ludwig von Schlözer]] and [[Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer]] of the [[University of Göttingen]] introduced the term into the academic discourse in an attempt to reform the contemporary understanding of world history.Vermeulen, Han F., 2008, ''Early History of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment'', Leiden, p. 199.{{cite book|last = Vermeulen|first = Hans|title = Early History of Ethnograph and Ethnolog in the German Enlightenment: Anthropological Discourse in Europe and Asia, 1710–1808|year = 2008|publisher = Privately published|location = Leiden}} [26] => [27] => ==Features of ethnographic research== [28] => According to Dewan (2018), the researcher is not looking for generalizing the findings; rather, they are considering it in reference to the context of the situation. In this regard, the best way to integrate ethnography in a quantitative research would be to use it to discover and uncover relationships and then use the resultant data to test and explain the empirical assumptions.(Dewan M. (2018) Understanding Ethnography: An 'Exotic' Ethnographer's Perspective. In: Mura P., Khoo-Lattimore C. (eds) Asian Qualitative Research in Tourism. Perspectives on Asian Tourism. Springer, Singapore). [29] => [30] => In ethnography, the researcher gathers what is available, what is normal, what it is that people do, what they say, and how they work.Preece, J., Sharp, H., & Rogers, Y. (2015). Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (4th edition). Wiley. [31] => [32] => Ethnography can also be used in other methodological frameworks, for instance, an action research program of study where one of the goals is to change and improve the situation. [33] => [34] => Ethnographic research is a fundamental methodology in cultural ecology, development studies, and feminist geography. In addition, it has gained importance in social, political, cultural, and nature-society geography.{{Citation |last=Till |first=K. E. |title=Ethnography |date=2009-01-01 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080449104004302 |encyclopedia=International Encyclopedia of Human Geography |pages=626–631 |editor-last=Kitchin |editor-first=Rob |place=Oxford |publisher=Elsevier |language=en |isbn=978-0-08-044910-4 |access-date=2022-03-13 |editor2-last=Thrift |editor2-first=Nigel}} Ethnography is an effective methodology in qualitative geographic research that focuses on people's perceptions and experiences and their traditionally place-based immersion within a social group.{{Cite book |last1=Himley |first1=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKYvEAAAQBAJ |title=The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography |last2=Havice |first2=Elizabeth |last3=Valdivia |first3=Gabriela |date=2021-07-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-78408-8 |page=204 |language=en}} [35] => [36] => ==Data collection methods== [37] => [[File:Izmir Ethnography Museum.jpg|thumb|220px|[[İzmir Ethnography Museum]] in [[İzmir]], Turkey, from the courtyard]] [38] => [[File:Ethnography Museum Budapest architecture.jpg|thumb|220px|[[Ethnographic Museum (Budapest)|Ethnography museum]], [[Budapest]], Hungary]] [39] => According to [[John David Brewer|John Brewer]], a leading social scientist, data collection methods are meant to capture the "social meanings and ordinary activities"[Brewer, John D. (2000). ''Ethnography.'' Philadelphia: Open University Press. p.10.] of people (informants) in "naturally occurring settings" that are commonly referred to as "the field". The goal is to collect data in such a way that the researcher imposes a minimal amount of personal bias in the data. Multiple methods of data collection may be employed to facilitate a relationship that allows for a more personal and in-depth portrait of the informants and their community. These can include participant observation, field notes, interviews and surveys, as well as various visual methods.{{Cite book |last=Pink |first=Sarah |title=Doing visual ethnography |date=2021 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-5297-1766-2 |edition=Fourth |location=Los Angeles}} [40] => [41] => Interviews are often taped and later transcribed, allowing the interview to proceed unimpaired of note-taking, but with all information available later for full analysis. Secondary research and document analysis are also used to provide insight into the research topic. In the past, kinship charts were commonly used to "discover logical patterns and social structure in non-Western societies".[http://www.anthrobase.com/Dic/eng/def/kinship.html]{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} In the 21st century, anthropology focuses more on the study of people in urban settings and the use of kinship charts is seldom employed. [42] => [43] => In order to make the data collection and interpretation transparent, researchers creating ethnographies often attempt to be "reflexive". Reflexivity refers to the researcher's aim "to explore the ways in which [the] researcher's involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research".[Nightingale, David & Cromby, John. ''Social Constructionist Psychology: A Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice''. Philadelphia: Open University Press. p. 228.][Marvasti, Amir & Gubrium, Jaber. 2023. Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Sites, Selves & Social Worlds. Routledge. Despite these attempts of reflexivity, no researcher can be totally unbiased. This factor has provided a basis to criticize ethnography. [44] => [45] => Traditionally, the ethnographer focuses attention on a community, selecting knowledgeable informants who know the activities of the community well.{{cite book |last=Garson |first=G. David |url=http://www.statisticalassociates.com/ethnography.htm |title=Ethnographic Research |year=2015 }}{{page needed|date=February 2020}} These informants are typically asked to identify other informants who represent the community, often using snowball or chain sampling. This process is often effective in revealing common cultural denominators connected to the topic being studied. Ethnography relies greatly on up-close, personal experience. Participation, rather than just observation, is one of the keys to this process.{{cite book |last1=Genzuk |first1=Michael |year=1999 |chapter-url=http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~genzuk/Ethnographic_Research.html |chapter=Tapping Into Community Funds of Knowledge |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023021956/http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~genzuk/Ethnographic_Research.html |archive-date=October 23, 2018 |title=Effective Strategies for English Language Acquisition: A Curriculum Guide for the Development of Teachers, Grades Kindergarten through Eight}} Ethnography is very useful in social research. [46] => [47] => Ybema ''et al.'' (2010) examine the ontological and epistemological presuppositions underlying ethnography. Ethnographic research can range from a realist perspective, in which behavior is observed, to a constructivist perspective where understanding is socially constructed by the researcher and subjects. Research can range from an objectivist account of fixed, observable behaviors to an interpretive narrative describing "the interplay of individual agency and social structure."S. Ybema, D. Yanow, H. Wels, & F. Kamsteeg (2010). "Ethnography." In A. Mills, G. Durepos, & E. Wiebe (Eds.), ''Encyclopedia of Case Study Research.'' (pp. 348–352). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Critical theory researchers address "issues of power within the researcher-researched relationships and the links between knowledge and power." [48] => [49] => Another form of data collection is that of the "image". The image is the projection that an individual puts on an object or abstract idea. An image can be contained within the physical world through a particular individual's perspective, primarily based on that individual's past experiences. One example of an image is how an individual views a novel after completing it. The physical entity that is the novel contains a specific image in the perspective of the interpreting individual and can only be expressed by the individual in the terms of "I can tell you what an image is by telling you what it feels like."{{cite web|last1=Barry|first1=Lynda|title=Lynda Barry: The answer is in the picture|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmT4wLWksOw| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/hmT4wLWksOw| archive-date=2021-10-30|website=YouTube|publisher=INKtalks|access-date=5 May 2015}}{{cbignore}} The idea of an image relies on the imagination and has been seen to be utilized by children in a very spontaneous and natural manner. Effectively, the idea of the image is a primary tool for ethnographers to collect data. The image presents the perspective, experiences, and influences of an individual as a single entity and in consequence, the individual will always contain this image in the group under study. [50] => [51] => == Differences across disciplines == [52] => The ethnographic method is used across a range of different disciplines, primarily by anthropologists/ethnologists but also occasionally by sociologists. [[Cultural studies]], [[occupational therapy]], [[economics]], [[social work]], [[education]], [[design]], [[psychology]], [[computer science]], [[human factors and ergonomics]], [[ethnomusicology]], [[folkloristics]], [[religious studies]], [[geography]], [[history]], [[linguistics]], [[communication studies]], [[performance studies]], [[advertising]], [[accounting research]], [[nursing]], [[urban planning]], [[usability]], [[political science]],Schatz, Edward, ed. ''Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power''. University Of Chicago Press. 2009. [[social movement]],{{cite book |last1=Balsiger |first1=Philip |last2=Lambelet |first2=Alexandre |chapter=Participant observation |pages=144–172 |date=2014 |editor1-first=Donatella |editor1-last=Della Porta |editor1-link=Donatella della Porta |title=Methodological practices in social movement research |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-871957-1 |hdl=1814/33395 }} and [[criminology]] are other fields which have made use of ethnography. [53] => [54] => ===Cultural and social anthropology=== [55] => [[Cultural anthropology]] and [[social anthropology]] were developed around ethnographic research and their [[canon (basic principle)|canonical]] texts, which are mostly ethnographies: e.g. ''[[Argonauts of the Western Pacific]]'' (1922) by [[Bronisław Malinowski]], ''Ethnologische Excursion in Johore'' (1875) by [[Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay]], ''[[Coming of Age in Samoa]]'' (1928) by [[Margaret Mead]], ''[[The Nuer]]'' (1940) by [[E. E. Evans-Pritchard]], ''Naven'' (1936, 1958) by [[Gregory Bateson]], or "[[The Lele of the Kasai]]" (1963) by [[Mary Douglas]]. Cultural and social anthropologists today place a high value on doing ethnographic research. The typical ethnography is a document written about a particular people, almost always based at least in part on [[emic]] views of where the culture begins and ends. Using language or community boundaries to bound the ethnography is common.Naroll, Raoul. ''Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology.'' Ethnographies are also sometimes called "case studies".Chavez, Leo. ''Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Workers in American Society'' (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology). 1997, Prentice Hall. Ethnographers study and interpret culture, its universalities, and its variations through the ethnographic study based on [[fieldwork]]. An ethnography is a specific kind of written observational science which provides an account of a particular culture, society, or community. The fieldwork usually involves spending a year or more in another society, living with the local people and learning about their ways of life. Ruth Fulton Benedict uses examples of Enthrotyhy in her serious of field work that began in 1922 of Serrano, of the Zuni in 1924, the Cochiti in 1925 and the Pina in 1926. All being people she wished to study for her anthropological data. Benedict's experiences with the Southwest Zuni pueblo is to be considered the basis of her formative fieldwork. The experience set the idea for her to produce her theory of "culture is personality writ large" (modell, 1988). By studying the culture between the different Pueblo and Plain Indians, She discovered the culture isomorphism that would be considered her personalized unique approach to the study of anthropology using ethnographic techniques. [56] => [57] => [[File:Bronisław Malinowski among Trobriand tribe.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bronisław Malinowski]] among [[Trobriand Islands|Trobriand]] tribe]] [58] => [[File:Noć muzeja 2014, Čakovec - poljoprivredni izlošci.jpg|thumb|right|Part of the ethnographic collection of the [[Međimurje County Museum]] in [[Croatia]]]] [59] => A typical ethnography attempts to be [[holistic]]Ember, Carol and Melvin Ember, ''Cultural Anthropology'' (Prentice Hall, 2006), chapter one.Heider, Karl. ''Seeing Anthropology''. 2001. Prentice Hall, Chapters One and Two. and typically follows an outline to include a brief history of the culture in question, an analysis of the [[physical geography]] or terrain inhabited by the people under study, including [[climate]], and often including what biological anthropologists call [[habitat]]. Folk notions of botany and zoology are presented as ethnobotany and ethnozoology alongside references from the formal sciences. Material culture, technology, and means of subsistence are usually treated next, as they are typically bound up in physical geography and include descriptions of infrastructure. Kinship and social structure (including age grading, peer groups, gender, voluntary associations, clans, moieties, and so forth, if they exist) are typically included. Languages spoken, dialects, and the history of language change are another group of standard topics.cf. Ember and Ember 2006, Heider 2001 op cit. Practices of child rearing, acculturation, and emic views on personality and values usually follow after sections on social structure.Ember and Ember 2006, op cit., Chapters 7 and 8 Rites, rituals, and other evidence of religion have long been an interest and are sometimes central to ethnographies, especially when conducted in public where visiting anthropologists can see them.{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Victor |last2=Turner |first2=Victor Witter |title=The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual |date=1970 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-0-8014-9101-6 }}{{page needed|date=February 2020}} [60] => [61] => As ethnography developed, anthropologists grew more interested in less tangible aspects of culture, such as values, worldview and what [[Clifford Geertz]] termed the "ethos" of the culture. In his fieldwork, Geertz used elements of a [[Empirical research|phenomenological]] approach, tracing not just the doings of people, but the cultural elements themselves. For example, if within a group of people, winking was a communicative gesture, he sought to first determine what kinds of things a wink might mean (it might mean several things). Then, he sought to determine in what contexts winks were used, and whether, as one moved about a region, winks remained meaningful in the same way. In this way, cultural boundaries of communication could be explored, as opposed to using linguistic boundaries or notions about the residence. Geertz, while still following something of a traditional ethnographic outline, moved outside that outline to talk about "webs" instead of "outlines"Geertz, Clifford. ''The Interpretation of Culture,'' Chapter one. of culture. [62] => [63] => Within cultural anthropology, there are several subgenres of ethnography. Beginning in the 1950s and early 1960s, anthropologists began writing "bio-confessional" ethnographies that intentionally exposed the nature of ethnographic research. Famous examples include ''[[Tristes Tropiques]]'' (1955) by Lévi-Strauss, ''The High Valley'' by Kenneth Read, and ''The Savage and the Innocent'' by [[David Maybury-Lewis]], as well as the mildly fictionalized ''Return to Laughter'' by Elenore Smith Bowen ([[Laura Bohannan]]). [64] => [65] => Later "[[reflexivity (social theory)|reflexive]]" ethnographies refined the technique to translate cultural differences by representing their effects on the ethnographer. Famous examples include ''Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight'' by [[Clifford Geertz]], ''Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco'' by [[Paul Rabinow]], ''The Headman and I'' by Jean-Paul Dumont, and ''Tuhami'' by Vincent Crapanzano. In the 1980s, the rhetoric of ethnography was subjected to intense scrutiny within the discipline, under the general influence of [[literary theory]] and [[postcolonial|post-colonial]]/[[post-structuralist]] thought. "Experimental" ethnographies that reveal the ferment of the discipline include ''Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man'' by [[Michael Taussig]], ''Debating Muslims'' by Michael F. J. Fischer and Mehdi Abedi, ''A Space on the Side of the Road'' by Kathleen Stewart, and ''Advocacy after Bhopal'' by Kim Fortun. [66] => [67] => This critical turn in sociocultural anthropology during the mid-1980s can be traced to the influence of the now classic (and often contested) text, ''Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography'', (1986) edited by [[James Clifford (historian)|James Clifford]] and [[George E. Marcus|George Marcus]]. ''Writing Culture'' helped bring changes to both anthropology and ethnography often described in terms of being 'postmodern,' 'reflexive,' 'literary,' 'deconstructive,' or 'poststructural' in nature, in that the text helped to highlight the various epistemic and political predicaments that many practitioners saw as plaguing ethnographic representations and practices.Olaf Zenker & Karsten Kumoll. ''Beyond Writing Culture: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices.'' (2010). New York: Berghahn Books. {{ISBN|978-1-84545-675-7}}. pp. 1–4 [68] => [69] => Where Geertz's and [[Victor Turner|Turner's]] interpretive anthropology recognized subjects as creative actors who constructed their sociocultural worlds out of symbols, postmodernists attempted to draw attention to the privileged status of the ethnographers themselves. That is, the ethnographer cannot escape the personal viewpoint in creating an ethnographic account, thus making any claims of objective neutrality highly problematic, if not altogether impossible.Paul A. Erickson & Liam D. Murphy. ''A History of Anthropological Theory,'' Third Edition. (2008). Toronto: Broadview Press. {{ISBN|978-1-55111-871-0}}. p. 190 In regards to this last point, ''Writing Culture'' became a focal point for looking at how ethnographers could describe different cultures and societies without denying the subjectivity of those individuals and groups being studied while simultaneously doing so without laying claim to absolute knowledge and objective authority.Erickson & Murphy (2008). A History of Anthropological Theory, pp. 190–191 Along with the development of experimental forms such as 'dialogic anthropology,' 'narrative ethnography,'{{cite web |first1=Kristen |last1=Ghodsee |title=Writing Ethnographies that Ordinary People Can Read |work=Anthropology News |date=May 24, 2013 |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kristenghodsee/files/writing_ethnographies.pdf }} and 'literary ethnography',Literary Ethnography http://literary-ethnography.tumblr.com/ ''Writing Culture'' helped to encourage the development of 'collaborative ethnography.'Olaf Zenker & Karsten Kumoll. Beyond Writing Culture: Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices. (2010). New York: Berghahn Books. {{ISBN|978-1-84545-675-7}}. p. 12 This exploration of the relationship between writer, audience, and subject has become a central tenet of contemporary anthropological and ethnographic practice. In certain instances, active collaboration between the researcher(s) and subject(s) has helped blend the practice of collaboration in ethnographic fieldwork with the process of creating the ethnographic product resulting from the research.{{cite journal | last1 = Lassiter | first1 = Luke E. | year = 2001 | title = From 'Reading over the Shoulders of Natives' to 'Reading alongside Natives', Literally: Toward a Collaborative and Reciprocal Ethnography | journal = Journal of Anthropological Research| volume = 57 | issue = 2| pages = 137–149 | doi=10.1086/jar.57.2.3631564| s2cid = 147547789 }}{{cite journal | last1 = Lassiter | first1 = Luke E. | year = 2005| title = Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology | journal = Current Anthropology | volume = 46 | issue = 1| pages = 83–106 | doi=10.1086/425658| s2cid = 147418975 }} [70] => [71] => ===Sociology=== [72] => {{Unreferenced section|date=August 2020}} [73] => {{Sociology}} [74] => [[Sociology]] is another field which prominently features ethnographies. [[Urban sociology]], Atlanta University (now Clark-Atlanta University), and the [[Chicago school (sociology)|Chicago School]], in particular, are associated with ethnographic research, with some well-known early examples being ''[[The Philadelphia Negro]]'' (1899) by W. E. B. Du Bois, ''[[Street Corner Society]]'' by [[William Foote Whyte]] and ''[[Black Metropolis]]'' by [[St. Clair Drake]] and [[Horace R. Cayton, Jr.]] Well-known is Jaber F Gubrium's pioneering ethnography of a nursing LIVING AND DYING AT MURRAY MANOR. Major influences on this development were anthropologist [[Lloyd Warner]], on the Chicago sociology faculty, and to [[Robert E. Park|Robert Park]]'s experience as a journalist. [[Symbolic interactionism]] developed from the same tradition and yielded such sociological ethnographies as ''Shared Fantasy'' by [[Gary Alan Fine]], which documents the early history of fantasy [[role-playing games]]. Other important ethnographies in sociology include [[Pierre Bourdieu]]'s work in Algeria and France. [75] => [76] => Jaber F. Gubrium's series of organizational ethnographies focused on the everyday practices of illness, care, and recovery are notable. They include ''Living and Dying at Murray Manor,'' which describes the social worlds of a nursing home; ''Describing Care: Image and Practice in Rehabilitation,'' which documents the social organization of patient subjectivity in a physical rehabilitation hospital; ''Caretakers: Treating Emotionally Disturbed Children,'' which features the social construction of behavioral disorders in children; and ''Oldtimers and Alzheimer's: The Descriptive Organization of Senility,'' which describes how the Alzheimer's disease movement constructed a new subjectivity of senile dementia and how that is organized in a geriatric hospital. Another approach to ethnography in sociology comes in the form of [[institutional ethnography]], developed by [[Dorothy E. Smith]] for studying the social relations which structure people's everyday lives. [77] => [78] => Other notable ethnographies include [[Paul Willis (cultural theorist)|Paul Willis]]'s ''Learning to Labour,'' on working class youth; the work of [[Elijah Anderson (sociologist)|Elijah Anderson]], [[Mitchell Duneier]], and [[Loïc Wacquant]] on black America, and Lai Olurode's ''Glimpses of Madrasa From Africa''. But even though many sub-fields and theoretical perspectives within sociology use ethnographic methods, ethnography is not the ''[[sine qua non]]'' of the discipline, as it is in cultural anthropology. [79] => [80] => === Communication studies === [81] => Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, ethnographic research methods began to be widely used by communication scholars. As the purpose of ethnography is to describe and interpret the shared and learned patterns of values, behaviors, beliefs, and language of a culture-sharing group, Harris, (1968), also Agar (1980) note that ethnography is both a process and an outcome of the research. Studies such as [[Gerry Philipsen]]'s analysis of cultural communication strategies in a [[blue-collar]], working-class neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, ''Speaking 'Like a Man' in Teamsterville'', paved the way for the expansion of ethnographic research in the study of communication. [82] => [83] => Scholars of [[communication studies]] use ethnographic research methods to analyze communicative behaviors and phenomena. This is often characterized in the writing as attempts to understand taken-for-granted routines by which working definitions are socially produced. Ethnography as a method is a storied, careful, and systematic examination of the reality-generating mechanisms of everyday life (Coulon, 1995). Ethnographic work in communication studies seeks to explain "how" ordinary methods/practices/performances construct the ordinary actions used by ordinary people in the accomplishments of their identities. This often gives the perception of trying to answer the "why" and "how come" questions of human communication.Rubin, R. B., Rubin, A. M., and Piele, L. J. (2005). ''Communication Research: Strategies and Sources.'' Belmont, California: Thomson Wadworth. pp. 229. Often this type of research results in a [[case study]] or [[field study]] such as an analysis of speech patterns at a protest rally, or the way firemen communicate during "down time" at a fire station. Like anthropology scholars, communication scholars often immerse themselves, and participate in and/or directly observe the particular [[social group]] being studied.Bentz, V. M., and Shapiro, J. J. (1998). ''Mindful Inquiry in Social Research.'' Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. p. 117. [84] => [85] => ===Other fields=== [86] => The American anthropologist [[George Spindler]] was a pioneer in applying the ethnographic methodology to the classroom. [87] => [88] => Anthropologists such as [[Daniel Miller (anthropologist)|Daniel Miller]] and [[Mary Douglas]] have used ethnographic data to answer academic questions about consumers and consumption. In this sense, Tony Salvador, [[Genevieve Bell]], and Ken Anderson describe design ethnography as being "a way of understanding the particulars of daily life in such a way as to increase the success probability of a new product or service or, more appropriately, to reduce the probability of failure specifically due to a lack of understanding of the basic behaviors and frameworks of consumers."Salvador, Tony; Genevieve Bell; and Ken Anderson (1999) "Design Ethnography," ''Design Management Journal'' (pp. 35-41). p. 37 Sociologist Sam Ladner argues in her book,{{cite book|title =Practical Ethnography|first = Sam|last = Ladner|isbn = 978-1-61132-390-0|date = 2014| publisher=Left Coast Press }} that understanding consumers and their desires requires a shift in "standpoint", one that only ethnography provides. The results are products and services that respond to consumers' unmet needs. [89] => [90] => Businesses, too, have found ethnographers helpful for understanding how people use products and services. By assessing user experience in a "natural" setting, ethnology yields insights into the practical applications of a product or service. It is one of the best ways to identify areas of friction and improve overall user experience.A Simple Guide For Conducting Consumer Research by Brian Lischer http://www.ignytebrands.com/customer-research/ Companies make increasing use of ethnographic methods to understand consumers and consumption, or for new product development (such as [[video ethnography]]). The ''Ethnographic Praxis in Industry'' (EPIC) conference is evidence of this. Ethnographers' systematic and holistic approach to real-life experience is valued by product developers, who use the method to understand unstated desires or cultural practices that surround products. Where focus groups fail to inform marketers about what people really do, ethnography links what people say to what they do—avoiding the pitfalls that come from relying only on self-reported, focus-group data. [91] => [92] => === Evaluating ethnography === [93] => The ethnographic methodology is not usually evaluated in terms of philosophical standpoint (such as [[positivism]] and [[Appearance emotionalism|emotionalism]]). Ethnographic studies need to be evaluated in some manner. No consensus has been developed on evaluation standards, but Richardson (2000, p. 254){{cite journal |last1=Richardson |first1=Laurel |title=Evaluating Ethnography |journal=Qualitative Inquiry |date=29 June 2016 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=253–255 |doi=10.1177/107780040000600207 |s2cid=220899430 }} provides five criteria that ethnographers might find helpful. Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein's (1997) monograph, ''The New Language of Qualitative Method,'' discusses forms of ethnography in terms of their "methods talk". [94] => [95] => # ''Substantive contribution'': "Does the piece contribute to our understanding of social life?" [96] => # ''Aesthetic merit'': "Does this piece succeed aesthetically?" [97] => # ''Reflexivity'': "How did the author come to write this text...Is there adequate self-awareness and self-exposure for the reader to make judgments about the point of view?"For post-colonial critiques of ethnography from various locations, see essays in Prem Poddar et al, ''Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures--Continental Europe and its Empires,'' Edinburgh University Press, 2008. [98] => # ''Impact'': "Does this affect me? Emotionally? Intellectually?" Does it move me? [99] => # ''Expresses a reality'': "Does it seem 'true'—a credible account of a cultural, social, individual, or communal sense of the 'real'?" [100] => [101] => ==Ethics== [102] => [[Gary Alan Fine]] argues that the nature of ethnographic inquiry demands that researchers deviate from formal and idealistic rules or ethics that have come to be widely accepted in qualitative and quantitative approaches in research. Many of these ethical assumptions are rooted in positivist and post-positivist [[epistemology|epistemologies]] that have adapted over time but are apparent and must be accounted for in all research paradigms. These ethical dilemmas are evident throughout the entire process of conducting ethnographies, including the design, implementation, and reporting of an ethnographic study. Essentially, Fine maintains that researchers are typically not as ethical as they claim or assume to be — and that "each job includes ways of doing things that would be inappropriate for others to know".Fine, p. 267 Also see Jaber F. Gubrium concept of "site-specificity" discussed his book co-edited with Amir Marvasti titled CRAFTING ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK. Routledge, 2023. [103] => [104] => Fine is not necessarily casting blame at ethnographic researchers but tries to show that researchers often make idealized ethical claims and standards which are inherently based on partial truths and self-deceptions. Fine also acknowledges that many of these partial truths and self-deceptions are unavoidable. He maintains that "illusions" are essential to maintain an occupational reputation and avoid potentially more caustic consequences. He claims, "Ethnographers cannot help but lie, but in lying, we reveal truths that escape those who are not so bold".Fine, p. 291 Based on these assertions, Fine establishes three conceptual clusters in which ethnographic ethical dilemmas can be situated: "Classic Virtues", "Technical Skills", and "Ethnographic Self". [105] => [106] => Much debate surrounding the issue of ethics arose following revelations about how the ethnographer [[Napoleon Chagnon]] conducted his ethnographic fieldwork with the [[Yanomani]] people of South America. [107] => [108] => While there is no international standard on Ethnographic Ethics, many western anthropologists look to the American Anthropological Association for guidance when conducting ethnographic work.[http://www.aaanet.org/issues/policy-advocacy/upload/AAA-Ethics-Code-2009.pdf ''American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics''] (PDF). p. 1. In 2009, the Association adopted a code of ethics, stating: Anthropologists have "moral obligations as members of other groups, such as the family, religion, and community, as well as the profession". The code of ethics notes that anthropologists are part of a wider scholarly and political network, as well as human and natural environment, which needs to be reported on respectfully. The code of ethics recognizes that sometimes very close and personal relationship can sometimes develop from doing ethnographic work. The Association acknowledges that the code is limited in scope; ethnographic work can sometimes be multidisciplinary, and anthropologists need to be familiar with ethics and perspectives of other disciplines as well.American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p.2 The eight-page code of ethics outlines ethical considerations for those conducting Research, Teaching, Application and Dissemination of Results, which are briefly outlined below.American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p. 1–8. [109] => * "Conducting Research" – When conducting research Anthropologists need to be aware of the potential impacts of the research on the people and animals they study.American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p.2–3 If the seeking of new knowledge will negatively impact the people and animals they will be studying they may not undertake the study according to the code of ethics. [110] => * "Teaching" – When teaching the discipline of anthropology, instructors are required to inform students of the ethical dilemmas of conducting ethnographies and field work.American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p. 4. [111] => * "Application" – When conducting an ethnography, Anthropologists must be "open with funders, colleagues, persons studied or providing information, and relevant parties affected by the work about the purpose(s), potential impacts, and source(s) of support for the work."American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p. 5. [112] => * "Dissemination of Results" – When disseminating results of an ethnography, "[a]nthropologists have an ethical obligation to consider the potential impact of both their research and the communication or dissemination of the results of their research on all directly or indirectly involved."American Anthropology Association Code of Ethics, p. 5–6. Research results of ethnographies should not be withheld from participants in the research if that research is being observed by other people. [113] => [114] => ===Classic virtues=== [115] => * "The kindly ethnographer" – Most ethnographers present themselves as being more sympathetic than they are, which aids in the research process, but is also deceptive. The identity that we present to subjects is different from whom we are in other circumstances. [116] => * "The friendly ethnographer" – Ethnographers operate under the assumption that they should not dislike anyone. When ethnographers find they intensely dislike individuals encountered in the research, they may crop them out of the findings.Fine, p. 270–77 [117] => * "The honest ethnographer" – If research participants know the research goals, their responses will likely be skewed. Therefore, ethnographers often conceal what they know in order to increase the likelihood of acceptance by participants. [118] => [119] => ===Technical skills=== [120] => * "The Precise Ethnographer" – Ethnographers often create the illusion that field notes are data and reflect what "really" happened. They engage in the opposite of plagiarism, giving undeserved credit through loose interpretations and paraphrasing. Researchers take near-fictions and turn them into claims of fact. The closest ethnographers can ever really get to reality is an approximate truth.{{cn|date=January 2024}} [121] => * "The Observant Ethnographer" – Readers of ethnography are often led to assume the report of a scene is complete – that little of importance was missed. In reality, an ethnographer will always miss some aspect because of lacking omniscience. Everything is open to multiple interpretations and misunderstandings. As ethnographers' skills in observation and collection of data vary by individual, what is depicted in ethnography can never be the whole picture. [122] => * "The Unobtrusive Ethnographer" – As a "participant" in the scene, the researcher will always have an effect on the communication that occurs within the research site. The degree to which one is an "active member" affects the extent to which sympathetic understanding is possible.Fine, p. 277–81 [123] => [124] => ===Ethnographic self=== [125] => The following are commonly misconceived conceptions of ethnographers:Fine, p. 282–89 [126] => * "The Candid Ethnographer" – Where the researcher personally situates within the ethnography is ethically problematic. There is an illusion that everything reported was observed by the researcher. [127] => * "The Chaste Ethnographer" – When ethnographers participate within the field, they invariably develop relationships with research subjects/participants. These relationships are sometimes not accounted for within the reporting of the ethnography, although they may influence the research findings. [128] => * "The Fair Ethnographer" – Fine claims that objectivity is an illusion and that everything in ethnography is known from a perspective. Therefore, it is unethical for a researcher to report fairness in findings. [129] => * "The Literary Ethnographer" – Representation is a balancing act of determining what to "show" through poetic/prosaic language and style, versus what to "tell" via straightforward, 'factual' reporting. The individual skills of an ethnographer influence what appears to be the value of the research. [130] => [131] => According to Norman K. Denzin, ethnographers should consider the following seven principles when observing, recording, and sampling data:{{cn|date=November 2022}} [132] => # The groups should combine symbolic meanings with patterns of interaction. [133] => # Observe the world from the point of view of the subject, while maintaining the distinction between everyday and scientific perceptions of reality. [134] => # Link the group's symbols and their meanings with the social relationships. [135] => # Record all behavior. [136] => # The methodology should highlight phases of process, change, and stability. [137] => # The act should be a type of symbolic interactionism. [138] => # Use concepts that would avoid casual explanations. [139] => [140] => ==Forms== [141] => [142] => ===Autoethnography=== [143] => {{Main|Autoethnography}} [144] => Autoethnography is a form of ethnographic research in which a researcher connects personal experiences to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.{{Cite book |last=Levy |first=Patricia |title=Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice |publisher=The Guilford Ford |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-4625-3897-3 |edition=3rd |language=English}}{{Cite book |last=Maréchal |first=Garance |title=Encyclopedia of case study research. Volume 2 |date=2010 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4522-6572-8 |editor-last=Mills |editor-first=Albert J. |location=Los Angeles [Calif.] |pages=43–45 |chapter=Autoethnography |oclc=811140520 |editor-last2=Durepos |editor-first2=Gabrielle |editor-last3=Wiebe |editor-first3=Elden}}{{Cite book |last=Ellis |first=Carolyn |title=The ethnographic I: a methodological novel about autoethnography |date=2004 |publisher=AltaMira Press |isbn=0-7591-0050-0 |location=Walnut Creek, CA |oclc=52845847}}{{Cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Tony E. |title=Autoethnography |last2=Jones |first2=Stacy Holman |last3=Ellis |first3=Carolyn |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-997210-4 |location=New York, New York |language=English |oclc=891397276}} According to Adams et al., autoethnography [145] => [146] => # uses a researcher's personal experience to describe and critique cultural beliefs, practices, and experiences; [147] => # acknowledges and values a researcher's relationships with others [148] => # uses deep and careful self-reflection—typically referred to as "reflexivity"—to name and interrogate the intersections between self and society, the particular and the general, the personal and the political [149] => # shows people in the process of figuring out what to do, how to live, and the meaning of their struggles [150] => # balances intellectual and methodological rigor, emotion, and creativity [151] => # strives for social justice and to make life better.{{Citation |last=Poulos |first=Christopher N. |title=Conceptual foundations of autoethnography. |date=2021 |work=Essentials of autoethnography. |pages=3–17 |place=Washington |publisher=American Psychological Association |language=en |doi=10.1037/0000222-001 |isbn=978-1-4338-3454-7 |s2cid=234961975}} [152] => [153] => [[Arthur P. Bochner|Bochner]] and [[Carolyn Ellis|Ellis]] have also defined autoethnography as "an autobiographical genre of writing and research that displays multiple layers of consciousness, connecting the personal to the cultural."{{Cite book |last1=Bochner |first1=Arthur |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315545417/evocative-autoethnography-arthur-bochner-carolyn-ellis |title=Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories |last2=Ellis |first2=Carolyn |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |location=New York, New York |language=English |doi=10.4324/9781315545417|isbn=978-1-134-81587-6 }}{{Rp|page=65}} They further indicate that autoethnography is typically written in first-person and can "appear in a variety of forms," such as "short stories, poetry, fiction, novels, photographic essays, personal essays, journals, fragmented and layered writing, and social science prose."{{Rp|page=65}} [154] => [155] => ===Genealogical method=== [156] => The '''genealogical method''' investigates links of [[kinship]] determined by [[marriage]] and [[Cultural heritage|descent]]. The method owes its origin from the book of British ethnographer [[W. H. R. Rivers]] titled "Kinship and Social Organisation" in 1911.''Windows on Humanity'' by Conrad Phillip Kottak. Chapter 2, page 38. [[Genealogy]] or kinship commonly plays a crucial role in the structure of non-industrial societies, determining both social relations and group relationship to the past. Marriage, for example, is frequently pivotal in determining military alliances between [[village]]s, [[clan]]s or [[ethnic groups]]. [157] => [158] => In the field of [[epistemology]] the term is used to characterize the [[philosophy|philosophical]] method employed by such writers as [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] and [[Michel Foucault]]. [159] => [160] => ===Digital ethnography=== [161] => [162] => Digital ethnography is also seen as virtual ethnography. This type of ethnography is not so typical as ethnography recorded by pen and pencil. Digital ethnography allows for a lot more opportunities to look at different cultures and societies. Traditional ethnography may use videos or images, but digital ethnography goes more in-depth. For example, digital ethnographers would use social media platforms such as Twitter or blogs so that people's interactions and behaviors can be studied. Modern developments in computing power and AI have enabled higher efficiencies in ethnographic data collection via multimedia and computational analysis using machine learning to corroborate many data sources together to produce a refined output for various purposes.{{cite book |doi=10.1115/DETC2016-59832 |isbn=978-0-7918-5019-0 |chapter=Computer-Aided Ethnography in Engineering Design |title=Volume 7: 28th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology |year=2016 |last1=Dixon |first1=Adam |last2=Liu |first2=Ying |last3=Setchi |first3=Rossi }} A modern example of this technology in application, is the use of captured audio in smart devices, transcribed to issue targeted adverts (often reconciled vs other metadata, or product development data for designers.{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/|title = Thousands of Amazon Workers Listen to Alexa Users' Conversations| date=11 April 2019 }} [163] => [164] => Digital ethnography comes with its own set of ethical questions, and the [[Association of Internet Researchers]]' ethical guidelines are frequently used.{{Cite web|title=Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Guidelines|url=https://aoir.org/ethics/}} Gabriele de Seta's paper "Three Lies of Digital Ethnography"{{Cite journal|last=Seta|first=Gabriele de|date=2020-02-17|title=Three lies of digital ethnography|url=https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/article/view/24|journal=Journal of Digital Social Research|language=en|volume=2|issue=1|pages=77–97|doi=10.33621/jdsr.v2i1.24|s2cid=213035202|issn=2003-1998|doi-access=free|hdl=11250/2754160|hdl-access=free}} explores some of the methodological questions more central to a specifically ethnographical approach to internet studies, drawing upon Fine's classic text.{{Cite journal|last=Fine|first=Gary Alan|date=1993-10-01|title=TEN LIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/089124193022003001|journal=Journal of Contemporary Ethnography|language=en|volume=22|issue=3|pages=267–294|doi=10.1177/089124193022003001|s2cid=144256882|issn=0891-2416|url-access=subscription}} [165] => [166] => ===Multispecies ethnography=== [167] => [168] => Multispecies ethnography in particular focuses on both nonhuman and human participants within a group or culture, as opposed to just human participants in traditional ethnography. A multispecies ethnography, in comparison to other forms of ethnography, studies species that are connected to people and our social lives. Species affect and are affected by culture, economics, and politics.{{Cite journal | doi=10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x|title = The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography|year = 2010|last1 = Kirksey|first1 = S. Eben|last2 = Helmreich|first2 = Stefan|journal = Cultural Anthropology|volume = 25|issue = 4|pages = 545–576|hdl = 1721.1/61966| s2cid=145087075 |hdl-access = free}} [169] => [170] => The study's roots go back to general anthropology of animals. One of the earliest well-known studies was [[Lewis H. Morgan|Lewis Henry Morgan]]'s The American Beaver and His Works (1868). His study closely observed a group of beavers in Northern Michigan. Morgan's main objective was to highlight that the daily individual tasks that the beavers performed were complex communicative acts that had been passed down for generations.{{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Lewis Henry |title=The American beaver: a classic of natural history and ecology |date=1986 |publisher=Dover Publications |isbn=0-486-24995-6 |location=New York |oclc=12135104}} [171] => [172] => In the early 2000s multi-species ethnography took on a huge increase in popularity. The annual meetings of the [[American Anthropological Association]] began to host the [https://www.multispecies-salon.org/ Multispecies Salon],{{Cite web |title=The Multispecies Salon |url=https://www.multispecies-salon.org/ |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=The Multispecies Salon |language=en-US}} a collection of discussions, showcases, and other events for anthropologists. The event provided a space for anthropologists and artists to come together and showcase vast knowledge of different organisms and their intertwined systems.{{Cite journal |last1=Kirksey |first1=S. Eben |last2=Helmreich |first2=Stefan |title=The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography |date=November 2010 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x |journal=Cultural Anthropology |language=en |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=545–576 |doi=10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01069.x|hdl=1721.1/61966 |s2cid=145087075 |hdl-access=free }} [173] => [174] => Multispecies ethnography highlights a lot of the negative effects of these shared environments and systems. Not only does multispecies ethnography observe the physical relationships between organisms, it also takes note of the emotional and psychological relationships built between species. [175] => [176] => ===Relational ethnography=== [177] => [178] => Most ethnographies take place in specific places where the observer can observe specific instances that relate to the topic involved. Relational Ethnography articulates studying fields rather than places or processes rather than processed people. Meaning that relational ethnography doesn't take an object nor a bounded group that is defined by its members shared social features nor a specific location that is delimited by the boundaries of a particular area. But rather the processes involving configurations of relations among different agents or institutions. [179] => [180] => ==Notable ethnographers== [181] => {{expand section|missing attribution of who or what source considers these persons ethnographers|date=November 2022}} [182] => {{div col start}} [183] => * [[Manuel Ancízar Basterra]] (1812–1882) [184] => * [[Franz Boas]] (1858–1942) [185] => * [[Gregory Bateson]] (1904–1980) [186] => * [[Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck]] ({{circa|1618–1655}}) [187] => * [[Mary Douglas]] (1921–2007) [188] => * [[Raymond Firth]] (1901–2002) [189] => * [[Leo Frobenius]] (1873–1938) [190] => * [[Thor Heyerdahl]] (1914–2002) [191] => * [[Zora Neale Hurston]] (1891–1960) [192] => * [[Diamond Jenness]] (1886–1969) [193] => * [[Mary Kingsley]] (1862–1900) [194] => * [[Carobeth Laird]] (1895–1983) [195] => * [[Ruth Landes]] (1908–1991) [196] => * [[Edmund Leach]] (1910–1989) [197] => * [[José Leite de Vasconcelos]] (1858–1941) [198] => * [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] (1908–2009) [199] => * [[Bronisław Malinowski]] (1884–1942) [200] => * [[David Maybury-Lewis]] (1929–2007) [201] => * [[Margaret Mead]] (1901–1978) [202] => * [[Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay]] (1846–1888) [203] => * [[Gerhard Friedrich Müller]] (1705–1783) [204] => * [[Nikolai Nadezhdin]] (1804–1856) [205] => * [[Lubor Niederle]] (1865–1944) [206] => * [[Dositej Obradović]] (1739–1811) [207] => * [[Alexey Okladnikov]] (1908-)_1981) [208] => * [[Sergey Oldenburg]] (1863–1934) [209] => * [[Edward Sapir]] (1884–1939) [210] => * [[August Ludwig von Schlözer]] (1735–1809) [211] => * [[James Spradley]] (1933–1982) [212] => * [[Jean Briggs]] (1929–2016) [213] => * [[Cora Du Bois]] (1903–1991) [214] => * [[Lila Abu-Lughod]] [215] => * [[Elijah Anderson (sociologist)|Elijah Anderson]] (born 1943) [216] => * [[Ruth Behar]] [217] => * [[Zuzana Beňušková]] (born 1960) [218] => * [[Zalpa Bersanova]] [219] => * [[Napoleon Chagnon]] (1938–2019) [220] => * [[Veena Das]] (born 1945) [221] => * [[Mitchell Duneier]] [222] => * [[Kristen R. Ghodsee]] (born 1970) [223] => * [[Alice Goffman]] (born 1982) [224] => * [[Jaber F. Gubrium]] (born 1945) [225] => * [[Katrina Karkazis]] [226] => * [[Jovan Cvijić]] [227] => * [[Richard Price (American historian)|Richard Price]] (born 1941) [228] => * [[Marilyn Strathern]] (born 1941) [229] => * [[Carolyn Ellis]] [230] => * [[Barrie Thorne]] [231] => * [[Sudhir Venkatesh]] [232] => * [[Susan Visvanathan]] [233] => * [[Paul Willis (cultural theorist)|Paul Willis]] [234] => * [[Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov]] [235] => * James H McAlexander (Consumer Culture Ethnography) (1958 to 2022){{cn|date=November 2022}} [236] => {{div col end}} [237] => [238] => == See also == [239] => {{Div col start}} [240] => * [[Area studies]] [241] => * [[Autoethnography]] [242] => * [[Critical ethnography]] [243] => * [[Ethnoarchaeology]] [244] => * [[Ethnography of communication]] [245] => * [[Ethnographic Museum]] [246] => * [[Ethnology]] [247] => * [[Ethnosemiotics]] [248] => * [[Folklore]] [249] => * [[Immersion journalism]] [250] => * [[Living lab]] [251] => * [[Online ethnography]] [252] => * [[Ontology]] [253] => * [[Participant observation]] [254] => * [[Qualitative research]] [255] => * [[Realist ethnography]] [256] => * [[Video ethnography]] [257] => * [[Visual ethnography]] [258] => [259] => {{Div col end}} [260] => [261] => == References == [262] => {{Reflist}} [263] => [264] => ===Bibliography=== [265] => {{Refbegin|30em}} [266] => * Agar, Michael (1996) ''The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography''. 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Ethnography

Ethnography is a research method used in anthropology and other social sciences to study and document human cultures. It involves the systematic observation and description of a particular group or community, including their social organization, beliefs, and practices.

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It involves the systematic observation and description of a particular group or community, including their social organization, beliefs, and practices. Ethnographers often spend extended periods of time immersing themselves within the community they are studying in order to gain a deep understanding of its customs and behaviors. They employ various techniques such as participant observation, interviews, and the collection of artifacts to gather data. Ethnographic research can provide valuable insights into different cultures and help researchers to understand the complexities of human society. The resulting ethnographic studies are often published as books or articles and contribute to the wider body of knowledge in anthropology and related fields.

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