13 books
—
4 voters
Ethnography
Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures. It is designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing the culture of a group. The word can thus be said to have a double meaning, which partly depends on whether it is used as a count noun or uncountable. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a c
...more
Related Genres
“
[...] ethnography is what you do when you try to understand people by allowing their lives to mold your own as fully and genuinely as possible.
”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
a place to share opinions on ethnomusicology works. a group for ethnomusicologists, musicologist…more
4 members,
last active 9 months ago
24,317 members,
last active 20 hours ago
2 members,
last active 13 years ago
66 members,
last active 7 years ago

























































