ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Summary/Abstract: As a very often repeated observation says, in order to find out what anthropology is, one must see what anthropologists do, and what they do is mainly ethnography. Ethnography can be understood both as a process and as a product. As a process, it is for the anthropologist the same thing laboratory research is for the scientist and survey for the sociologist, the method par excellence. It has to meet three main requirements: long time residence among the members of the studied culture, linguistic proficiency and must be conducted in the form of participant observation. Understood as a product, ethnographicmonograph must be holistic and to adopt the emic perspective, as opposed to the etic one.

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