According to Spradley, “participating in activities, asking questions, eating strange foods, learning a new language, watching ceremonies, taking fieldnotes, washing clothes, writing letters home, tracing out genealogies, observing play, interviewing informants, and hundreds of other things, Indeed, one of the primary methods used in ethnography is participant observation, which implies that the ethnographer not only observes activities in the field setting, but also participates in them wherever possible. Long-term participant observation, as advocated in classical ethnography, is the means for an ethnographer to discern what is real versus what is ideal, what is explicit from what is tacit, and what is Emically valid. Participant observation
