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Ethnography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ethnography (Greek ethnos = folk/people and graphein = writing) is a branch of anthropology. It is a methodological strategy used to provide descriptions of human societies, which as a methodolog...
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ethnography n. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures ... The term "ethnography" came into use in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
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"When used as a method, ethnography typically refers to fieldwork (alternatively, participant-observation) conducted by a single investigator who 'lives with and lives like' those who are studied, usually for a year or more." --John Van Maanen, 1996.
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Shaping Your Ethnographic Study ... Writing It Up: ; ... What have you discovered when you did your field work and what can we do with it? or data presentation and analysis of data...
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Ethnography gained popularity as a research methodology among the Victorian anthropologists who used it as an “excuse for empire.” By adapting Darwin’s theory of biological evolution to culture it was held that all cultures evolved from a state of primitive barbarism into a civilised, technological state of being.
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