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Ethnography is a practice and an expression with a capacious historical past that necessarily included political, philosophical, spiritual aesthetic elements. The study of ethnography is to define culture, people and society and "who they are and what they might become". In brief, it grew out of a master discourse of colonization. Observing the history of ethnography, it is found, the style and approach of writing ethnography is not a constant process. During the changing of time the process is also evolving. And its subject matter and praxis are also changing. Due to the evolving of ethnography how it is different from its earlier period"s ethnography, this is the important question of Ethnography. Earlier ethnography was only bounded with social ethnography but in modern and postmodern time "social ethnography is replaced by "cultural ethnography. Postmodern ethnography is an ethnography that goes beyond its traditional counterpart by expanding its reflexivity and its commitment to the groups it studies; it questions its truth claims and experiments with new mode of repenting. Postmodern ethnography derives its new goals from post modernism. That"s why it rejects grand narrative and "Meta theories" of modernism, with their pre -conceived and sweeping statements. "Reflexivity" is a paramount concern of postmodern ethnography, based on the belief that for too long, the rule and power of the researcher have been ignored by ethnographers.
Ethnography: A Simple Journey Today
European Journal of Business and Management, 2011
Ethnography is an in-depth study. In social science it has played a great role for understanding of human actions. Human reality is likely to be seen through ethnographic measurement. Human society is enlightened under the study of ethnography. It is provided that every cultural stimuli can be illustrated an ethnographical investigation. Sociology and cultural anthropology always stands on real investigation of ethnographic expedition. Ethnographic study is a part of Anthropology. Ethnography as defined by Lowie "is the science which deals with the'cultures'of human group"(1937;3). A very simple meaning is that total cultural description of particular community is described as ethnography.
The International Encylopedia of Anthropology
Ethnography is at the heart of social and cultural anthropology. This has been true since the inception of anthropology as a discipline in the nineteenth century. In one of its earliest forms, anthropology was called "ethnography," the social or human partner to the discipline of geography. If geography was about the geographic features of places around the world, including those distant from academic centers in Europe, then ethnography was about the ethnographic, about who lived where, what their beliefs and customs were, the languages they spoke, the worlds they created, and the relations they had with one another. Since this period, some aspects of the definition of ethnography have remained stable while others have changed. Whereas ethnography was once mostly something to know, it is now understood as a way of knowing. That is, ethnography was once understood as a specific way of being, one that anthropologists sought to know for individual peoples, but it is now also understood as a specific way of knowing. As a way of knowing the world, ethnography is truly unique. The term "ethnography" has its roots in the Greek words ethnos (folk, the people) and grapho (to write). Ethnography is to write about people, society, and/or culture, but it is much more than writing. It is also a method and a theory. As a method, ethnography is an embodied, empirical, and experiential field-based way of knowing centered around participant observation. Ethnographic research requires participation, not just observation. It is to participate in rather than just to observe the daily life, logics, rhythms, and contradictions of a cultural group or society. As such, it requires discipline and commitment beyond what is visible to someone not trained in ethnographic methods. As a theory, ethnography is to start on the ground, with the concepts that ground people's lives, worldviews, actions, and words in ways particular to that community. Together, these require a sense of the ethnographic as the goal. To understand ethnography as both noun and adjective is to assess culture as a thing and the cultural as a modifier, taking both as key aspects of human life. The American Anthropological Association (2004) defines ethnography as "the description of cultural systems or an aspect of culture based on fieldwork in which the investigator is immersed in the ongoing everyday activities of the designated community for the purpose of describing the social context, relationships, and processes relevant to the topic under consideration." This definition builds on the long-standing practice of anthropology as a field science, as first and most fully articulated by Bronisław Malinowski in 1922. Malinowski described ethnographic research as an effort "to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world" ([1922] 1984, 25). This was to consider both the objective and the subjective aspects of human life as the goals of anthropology. Malinowski argued that to record The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by Hilary Callan.
Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, 2013
Introduction Ethnography is a qualitative research method that has evolved out of ethnology within the broader field of cultural and social anthropology. With the emphasis in research conducted within mainstream psychology on positivistic quantitative research, ethnographic research within the field of psychology has been slow to gain stature as a viable and rigorous form of qualitative research within naturalistic settings. Definition Ethnography is a research methodology that seeks to explore and describe emic or etic knowledge about specific cultural groups and cultural phenomena, and thus contributing to the understanding of the social and cultural life of humans. The concept of ‘culture’ is defined broadly to include any group that share and engages within a common psychosocial experience, within a given space. What constitutes a given space – the field – is also defined broadly to include any geographical space, large or localized, or any virtual space, ...
Ethnographic method: the anthropologist’s strategy in the field Research in cultural anthropology
Al-Mustansyriah University, 2019
The concept of ethnography (in general) refers to the model of describing a human culture–its values, traditions, norms, institutions, interpersonal behaviors, material productions, and beliefs-by many of tools or methods such as interviewing, participant observation, and personal documents. The aim of research to explain the scope of ethnography in human sciences (one of them anthropology) and the importance is explain the steps which be used from researcher especially anthropologist when he inter the filed or fieldwork.
Relevance of Ethnomuseology for Ethnographical Museums and Tribal Cultural Heritage
Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology (IJRA), Red Flower Publications, New Delhi, 2021
Ethnomuseology is an interdisciplinary concept that mainly incorporates the Museum Studies and Ethnography / Anthropology with varieties of ethnic arts / artifacts. Ethnographical Museums all over world are the result of specialized field of Ethnomuseography. Since the initial stage and even till today Socio-Cultural Anthropologists are playing significant role to enrich the field of Ethnomuseography and contributing to the development of ethnographical museums in India and abroad. The present paper discusses about ethnographic museums in relation to tribal heritage of India in the wave of modernization and globalization. Most of the Ethnographic collections or cultural heritages are still prevalent in the form of living traditions. But, many of them are gradually lost or vanishing with time in the changing scenario due to cultural change. It is high time to preserve it by ethnomuseographical means. An attempt has also been made to discuss the ways through which such ethnographic museums are growing in India and abroad. In case of ethnographic museums especially community museums and tribal museums; Action Museology deals with the various aspects of tribal cultural sustainability and act as a key explanation to preserve and propagate the tribal cultural heritage.
Introduction to Ethnographic Research
In its most general sense, ethnography refers to the study and representation of culture. It is a research practice that many claim to be the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences and has become something of a storytelling institution possessing a good deal of scholarly legitimacy. Ethnography claims a sort of documentary status by the fact that a researcher, for a time, lives with and, to a degree, lives like those who are studied.