Title: Ethnography | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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Ethnography pdf
Signe Howell
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Introduction: ethnography and anthropology
Participant-observation
A brief history of ethnographic research in anthropology
Malinowski and the birth of British social anthropology
Multi-sited and multi-temporal fieldwork
Ethnography and fieldwork in other disciplines
In conclusion
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Content: Anthropology is an academic discipline that constructs its intellectual imaginings upon empirical-based knowledge about human worlds. Ethnography is the practice developed in order to bring about that knowledge according to certain methodological principles, the most important of which is participant-observation ethnographic fieldwork. Current understandings of both anthropology and ethnography are the result of years of debate and practice. While anthropologists are endlessly debating the premises for their understanding of different societies, they mostly agree that anthropology has nothing to offer the world without ethnographic fieldwork. At the same time, ethnography is just an empty practice without a concern for the disciplinary debates in anthropology departments and publications. It is therefore wrong to separate them; they are part and parcel of each other. Anthropology and ethnography are so intertwined that together they have become a basic premise for the anthropological epistemology. [ 1] This is how anthropologists understand the world. This is the premise for how they perform their fieldwork – wherever that may be – and this is the basis for their writings.