Ethnography

Feminist and oral history research investigates both cultural and social relationships within the larger context of historical events, economic pressures, and political environments (Buch 107). Ethnographies illuminate the connections and patterns that exist within the studied subjects’ social lives, including intricacies related to work, family, language, spirituality, among others. Unlike other forms of research which create distance between researcher and subject, ethnography relies heavily upon relationships formed during the interview/research process. “Using the self” aids ethnographers in understanding cultural or social processes that may appear strange or foreign (Buch 108). Ethnography typically relies upon months—or even years—of…

In Mead’s ethnography, she has extensive and intensive research which she thoroughly explained. She not only explained her research, but also why she did her research and why each photographic plate was selected for analysis. With full disclosure there is a mention of photographs that were believed to be staged. In an effort to be completely transparent there is much explanation given to the selection of the photographs, retouching of photographs, notes taken and even how the frames were…

In Wife Rena Teary, Rena Miller details her personal experience with institutional ethnography. Rena gain firsthand experience with her community palliative care system as the wife of Vietnam War veteran who been diagnosed with terminal cancer associated with Agent Orange exposure. Institutional ethnography is differs from other types of interpretive methodologies in that its intent is to understand how everyday experience is inextricably bound to relations of dominance and subordination (Smith…

An ethnographically guided research methodology is used to conduct this research (Hamersely, 1992). Ethnography was developed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the study of small-scale, traditional, isolated societies, although it is now widely used by practitioners of many disciplines in all kinds of research settings (Angrosino, 2007). Ethnography is a plan of action or strategy of investigation in which the researcher studies an intact cultural group…

social features can also be generalized across the entire humanity. Ethnology is a study of culture that can be called the wisdom of the life in nations. Even if ethnography is targeting at ethnic study, anthropologist have to comparative study and identify the characteristics of different culture. Also, ethnology has to study with historical research as well as comparative study. To identify of different culture in a way characteristic of a comparative study is corporate. However, to clarify…

Analysis of the Displacement in Sudan Description: Different from anthropology, ethnography is the study of how cultures dynamically change over time while being mindful of intercultural relationships within these civilizations. Ethnographers take the time to observe how people react to these changes, and how the differences of their cultures impact the civilians that live there. As researchers collect data from areas of interests, there is hope that this holistic style of study sheds light to…

Imagining Transgender – an ethnography of a category that clues in readers to the important fascinating turn his work takes across its three hundred some odd pages. Unlike other academic works up through the time of its publication (2007) which have tended to align a particular transgender experience with queer-studies (Feinberg 1997, Wilchins 2004), autobiographical/ “insider” narratives (Boylan 2003/2013; Bornstein 1993), or social service primers (Lev 2004), Valentine’s research instead…

disturbing themes within his reality filled photo-ethnography, Righteous Dopefiend, attracted a wide audience. In ‘Righteous Dopefiend’ Bourgois and his research assistant Jeff Schonberg followed the lives of 24 homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in San Francisco over a period of 12 years. The ethnography was written to shed light on the controversial topics of poverty, addiction and homelessness, and to reveal how political and social structures are responsible for such a destructive…

Christal Padilla March 23, 2017 ANTHC 213 In his ethnography “Outlawed, Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian city”, Daniel M. Goldstein paints a vivid and important portrait of security, government, and community within the Bolivian town of Cochabamba. Like most other anthropologists, Goldstein takes an in-depth exploration and examination of the marginalized people of Cochabamba who at often times find themselves sacrificing their basic human rights in exchange for the luxury of…

Introduction There are countless approaches to writing an ethnography as demonstrated throughout the history of anthropology. From Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) to Ruth Benedict’s Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946) to Paul Rabinow’s Anthropos Today (2003), ethnographies have been written in many styles and employed many theoretical frameworks and methods, but fundamentally, their purpose is to offer invaluable insights about various aspects of life, culture, or…