Ethnography

Ethnography requires deep immersion in a community to understand its culture from within.

The professor encouraged students to write a short ethnography about their own neighborhoods.

Her ethnography of urban youth explored how music shapes identity and belonging.

The film served as a visual ethnography, documenting the daily lives of mountain shepherds.

By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.

As intellectuals read the written text, compile ethnographies, tour the non-Western terrain, and make art out of the charred remnants of these quests, we always run the risk of fortifying the old culture with neomythologies that continue to invade the private space of others.