It’s not, and it’s not like a survey, either. It’s when a skilled anthropologist, who understands many general principles of human culture, becomes immersed in a culture for the purposes of detailed observation and writes down their findings. The written account is an ethnogrpahy and the entire practice comprises the field of ethnography. The wikipedia article is accurate.
It’s not, and it’s not like a survey, either. It’s when a skilled anthropologist, who understands many general principles of human culture, becomes immersed in a culture for the purposes of detailed observation and writes down their findings. The written account is an ethnogrpahy and the entire practice comprises the field of ethnography. The wikipedia article is accurate.