Ethnography
How do you learn about the world in a systematic way? Ethnography is a tool that anthropologists use to learn about cultures. Anthropologists embed themselves in communities learning about their material and social culture including values and everyday activities.
"Ethnography is the descriptive study of a particular human society or the process of making such a study. Contemporary ethnography is based almost entirely on fieldwork and requires the complete immersion of the anthropologist in the culture and everyday life of the people who are the subject of their study." from Britannica Academic
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Ethnography DefinitionFrom Credo Reference
Ethnographic Film
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The Professional ForeignerThe portrait of a famous expert in Visual Ethnography and more generally touches upon vital issues of ethnographic filmmaking.
Ethnographic Films
Anthropologists have documented culture on film for over 100 years, starting with Nanook of the North (1922) about the lives of Inuit peoples in Inukjuak, Canada. The documentary A Century after Nanook goes back to Inukjuak to see how the last hundred years, including environmental degradation, have impacted the community.
Watch modern documentaries are people across the world below.
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Kanopy BASE Collection This link opens in a new windowSearch "ethnography" for films using techniques of ethnographic research.
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Films on DemandSearch "ethnography" for a list of short videos.
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Chapter 7. Ethnography from Consumer Psychology: a Study Guide to Qualitative Research Methods
Six pages.
"Ethnographies take the form of case studies that are produced in order to provide insight into unfamiliar and often commonplace activities of everyday life." -
Qualitative Research Methodologies: Ethnography
Three pages.
"The central aim of ethnography is to provide rich, holistic insights into people's views and actions, as well as the nature (that is, sights, sounds) of the location they inhabit, through the collection of detailed observations and interviews."
