Ethnographic details

1. Department of Anthropology
Presented by :
UTTAM SHARMA
M.A. SEM 1

2. OVERVIEW
 What is ethnography
 Ethnographic concern
 Types of ethnography
 characteristics of ethnography
 Planing of ethnography
 Step in conducting ethnography
 Stategy : ethnographic research

3. Ethnography
What is ethnography ?
ETHNOGRAPHY
• A method of observing human interactions in social
setting and activities .(burke and kirk 2001)
• As the observation of people in their ‘culture context’.
• The study of systematic recording of human cultures;
also: a descriptive work produced from such research.
Rather than studying people from the outside,
you learn from people from the inside.

4. Ethnographic concern.....
 The production of descriptive cultural knowledge of
a group.
 .The description of activities in relations to
particular cultural context from the point of view of
the member of that group themselves.
 The production of a list of features constitutive of
membership in a group on cultural.
 The provision as for as possible of insider account
the development of theory.

5. Ethnograph
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ETHNOGRAPHY
TYPES OF ETHNOGRAPHY
Critical
ethnograph
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Case
study
ethnography
Realist
ethnograph
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6. Critical ethnography
 Research and thinking are medicated power
relations
 The power relations are socially and historically
located
 Facts and values are inseparable ideological
domination in strongest.
 When oppressed group see their situation as
inevitable natural or necessary.

7. Case study ethnography
 Report should focus on case.
 Researcher can choose to be objective or
subjective.

8. Realist ethnography
 Report should be an objective study.
 The researcher should remain in the background.

9. Ethnography
characteristics of ethnography