Ethnography
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Ethnography (ethnos = people and graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other. The genre has both formal and historical connections to travel writing and colonial office reports. Several academic traditions, in particular the constructivist and relativist paradigms, employ ethnographic research as a crucial research method. Many cultural anthropologists consider ethnography the essence of the discipline.
See also
- Area studies
- Critical ethnography
- Ethnography of communication
- The Ethnographic Self
- Realist ethnography
- Online ethnography: a form of ethnography that involves conducting ethnographic studies on the Internet
- Participant observation
- Video ethnography
- Living lab
Notable ethnographers
- Manuel Ancízar Basterra
- Elijah Anderson
- Franz Boas
- Raymond Firth
- Bronisław Malinowski
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
- Mary Douglas
- Gregory Bateson
- Zalpa Bersanova
- Napoleon Chagnon
- Kristen R. Ghodsee
- Diamond Jenness
- Ruth Landes
- Edmund Leach
- José Leite de Vasconcelos
- David Maybury-Lewis
- Margaret Mead
- Nikolai Nadezhdin
- Lubor Niederle
- Dositej Obradović
- Alexey Okladnikov
- Sergey Oldenburg
- Richard Price
- Edward Sapir
- August Ludwig von Schlözer
- Marilyn Strathern
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Sudhir Venkatesh
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Paul Willis
- Veena Das
- Susan Visvanathan
