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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
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[...] 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.
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― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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It is surprising how few people really understand or see what goes on around them, and how many fewer can recall it later on. The key is to practice your observational skills.
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― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
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Exciting new group that will be reading and discussing anthropological theory and ethnography.
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Prep for grad school and pure pleasure of ethnographic works and cultural theory
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