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1 Ethnography has connections to genres as diverse as travel writing, colonial office reports, the play and the ________.

2 ________ and social anthropology were developed around ethnographic research and their canonical texts which are mostly ethnographies: e.g.

3 Scholars of ________ use ethnographic research methods to analyze communication behaviors, seeking to answer the "why" and "how come" questions of human communication.

4 Ethnography (Greek ἔθνος ethnos = folk/people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is a qualitative research method often used in the social sciences, particularly in ________ and in sociology.

5 ________, economics, social work, education, ethnomusicology, folklore, geography, history, linguistics, communication studies, performance studies, psychology and criminology are other fields which have made use of ethnography.

6 In the 1980s, the rhetoric of ethnography was subjected to intense scrutiny within the discipline, under the general influence of ________ and post-colonial/post-structuralist thought.

7 ________ is another field which prominently features ethnographies.

8 As ethnography developed, anthropologists grew more interested in less tangible aspects of culture, such as values, worldview and what ________ termed the "ethos" of the culture.

9 "Experimental" ethnographies that reveal the ferment of the discipline include Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man by ________, Debating Muslims by Michael F.

10 ________'s own fieldwork used elements of a phenomenological approach to fieldwork, tracing not just the doings of people, but the cultural elements themselves.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • one ethnographic source suggests that the Zombie palm, Zombia antillarum (pictured), a native of the island of Hispaniola, can be used to awaken zombies or protect against their spying?
  • the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls?
  • the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
  • a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt?
  • Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography?
  • Bronisław Malinowski's ethnography Coral Gardens and their Magic describes magic spells used in Trobriand agriculture as a pragmatic component of human behaviour?
  • French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
  • 19th century Polish noble and farmer Stanisław Chełchowski (pictured) published academic works ranging from ethnography through agriculture to mycology?
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