Controversy over the sociologist Alice Goffman’s On the Run, a study of young people on the margins of society, has put ethnography on trial. Lost in the accusations and rebuttals, I fear, is the ...

Ethnography is a term that originated in anthropology and refers to the systematic study of people and cultures by spending time living with them. By capturing detailed observations to understand how ...

Replication controversies have plagued the social sciences in recent years. But one research method is uniquely difficult to verify: ethnography. Ethnographers, who often work in sociology and ...

Performance ethnography is an interdisciplinary approach that combines traditional ethnographic fieldwork with elements of theatre, movement and embodied practice to explore how communities articulate ...

At the heart of ethnographic research is observation. Ethnographers watch how people interact with people, places, and things. It’s anti-lab science. There are rarely white coats and almost never ...

Multimodal ethnography in visual anthropology represents an integrative approach to understanding human cultures through the combined use of visual, auditory and textual media. By employing film, ...

Redmond, WA – Ethnography, a form of applied anthropology, sounds way too fuzzy and foreign to turn the heads of corporate types. Certainly, in the past, it has been something of an oddity; the only ...

Is a cassette player an “ordinary object” or a “mystery”? It depends on whom you ask, and ethnography can help you ask the right questions. Yoshikazu Takada, CC BY Business schools, too, are rushing ...

A growing effort to strengthen research culture in Nepal’s social sciences came into focus on Friday as The Open Institute for Social Science announced the winners of its “New Ethnography Writing ...