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

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Leticia Supple
You still need to be able to write, and to have a habit of writing - and if you can do this creatively, so much the better.
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Every human experiences existential phases in their lives that they never realize. But as an ethnographer, it is my duty to dig out their existential experiences through prompting.
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