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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It 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…

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related to Notable ethnographers · 55
Ethnography → Abu Abd, Adriaen Cornelissen, Alexey Okladnikov, Alice Goffman, Aqil, August Ludwig, Barrie ThorneSudhir VenkateshSusan VisvanathanPaul, Bronisław Malinowski, Carobeth Laird, Carolyn EllisSadhana Naithani, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Consumer Culture Ethnography, Cora Du Bois, David Maybury-Lewis, Diamond Jenness, Donck, Dositej Obradović, Edmund Leach, Edward Sapir, Franz Boas
related to Sociology · 46
Ethnography → Algeria, Alzheimer's, Another, Atlanta University, Black Metropolis, Caretakers, Cayton, Chicago, Chicago School, Clair Drake, Clark-Atlanta University, Describing Care, Dorothy, Du Bois, Dying, France, Gary Alan Fine, Gubrium's, Horace, Image
related to Cultural and social anthropology · 42
Ethnography → Age, All, An, Argonauts, Benedict's, Bronisław Malinowski, By, Cochiti, Coming, Cultural, Enthrotyhy, Ethnographers, Ethnographies, Ethnologische Excursion, Evans-Pritchard, Folk, Gregory Bateson, Johore, Kasai, Kinship
related to Evaluating ethnography · 20
Ethnography → Aesthetic, Does, Emotionally, Ethnographic, Expresses, Gubrium, Holstein's, How, Impact, Intellectually, Is, Jaber, James, No, Qualitative Method, Reflexivity, Richardson, Substantive, The, The New Language
related to Business · 17
Ethnography → Anthropologists, Business, By, Daniel Miller, Doing Ethnography, Furthermore, Genevieve Bell, Guide, It, Ken Anderson, Mary Douglas, Practical Ethnography, Private Sector, Sam Ladner's, Sociologist Sam Ladner, The, Tony Salvador
related to Communication studies · 16
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related to Development as a science · 16
Ethnography → August Ludwig, Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, German, Greek, Göttingen, Johann Friedrich Schöpperlin, Schlözer, Second Kamchatka Expedition, There, Thilo, This, University, Völker-Beschreibung, While, Whilst
related to Digital ethnography · 14
Ethnography → AI, Association, Digital, Digital Ethnography, Fine's, For, Gabriele, Internet Researchers, Modern, Seta's, This, Three Lies, Traditional, Twitter
related to Origins · 13
Ethnography → Agricola, Anthony Kaldellis, Byzantine, Edith Hall, From Herodotus, Germania, Greek, Herodotus' Histories, Histories, Homeric, Odyssey, Tacitus, The
related to Ethnographic self · 12
Ethnography → Fine, Representation, The, The Candid Ethnographer, The Chaste Ethnographer, The Fair Ethnographer, The Literary Ethnographer, There, Therefore, These, When, Where

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Ethnographyis abranch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures0.90text
Ethnographyis aform of inquiry that relies heavily on participant observation0.90text
Ethnographyis aholistic study and so includes a brief history0.90text
Ethnographyis aeffective methodology in qualitative geographic research that focuses on people's perceptions and experiences and their traditionally place-based immersion within a social group0.90text
Ethnographyis adocument written about a particular people0.90text
Ethnographyis aspecific kind of written observational science which provides an account of a particular culture0.90text
the NASA Challenger disasterinstance ofsometimes to investigate events in the past0.80text
'dialogic anthropologyinstance ofAlong with the development of experimental forms0.80text
' 'narrative ethnographyinstance ofAlong with the development of experimental forms0.80text
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'literary ethnography'instance ofAlong with the development of experimental forms0.80text
Writing Culture helped to encourage the development of 'collaborative ethnography.' This exploration of the relationship between writerinstance ofAlong with the development of experimental forms0.80text

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