Ethnographic realism
Within the field of anthropology and other social sciences, ethnography is a form of research that relies on a range of sources of data, but usually tends to rely mainly on participant observation. However, the term also refers to the product of this type of research, which of course normally takes a textual form. As a result, ethnography is also sometimes seen as a genre of writing, one used to describe patterns of human social interaction in particular contexts.[1]
Within the context of ethnography, the term 'realism' is often used to refer to the assumptions that some kinds of ethnographic work make about the phenomena to be investigated, and how these are to be understood. However, 'ethnographic realism' has also been used to refer to a style of writing that narrates the author's experiences and observations as if the reader were witnessing or experiencing events first hand. A work written using ethnographic realism may be referred to as a realist ethnography, and classified as a subgenre of ethnography.
Styles of ethnographic realism
George Marcus and Dick Cushman described and categorized realist ethnographies under certain characteristics.[2]
- Totalizing description
- Omniscient narration
- Native interpretation
- Generalizations
- Jargon
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- Clan
- Ethnic group
- Ethnographic group
- Ethnolinguistic group
- Ethnoreligious group
- Ethnonational group
- Ethnographic realism
- Hyphenated ethnicity
- Indigenous peoples
- Ingroups and outgroups
- Meta-ethnicity
- Metroethnicity
- Minority group
- Monoethnicity
- Nation
- Nationality
- Panethnicity
- Polyethnicity
- Population
- Race
- Symbolic ethnicity
- Tribe
- Anthropology
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Ethnobiology
- Ethnocinema
- Ethnogeology
- Ethnography
- Ethnohistory
- Ethnolinguistics
- Ethnology
- Ethnomathematics
- Ethnomedicine
- Ethnomethodology
- Ethnomuseology
- Ethnomusicology
- Ethnophilosophy
- Ethnopsychopharmacology
- Ethnopoetics
- Ethnoscience
- Ethnosemiotics
- Ethnotaxonomy
ethnogenesis
- Cross-race effect
- Cultural assimilation
- Cultural identity
- Demonym
- Development
- Endonym
- Ethnarch
- Ethnic flag
- Ethnic option
- Ethnic origin
- Ethnic religion
- Ethnicity in census
- Ethnofiction
- Ethnonym
- Folk religion
- Historical
- Imagined community
- Kinship
- Legendary progenitor
- Lineage-bonded society
- Mythomoteur
- Mores
- Nation-building
- Nation state
- National language
- National myth
- Origin myth
- Pantribal sodality
- Statistext
- Tribal name
- Tribalism
- Urheimat
- White ethnic
- Consociationalism
- Cultural appropriation
- Diaspora politics
- Dominant minority
- Ethnic democracy
- Ethnic enclave
- Ethnic interest group
- Ethnic majority
- Ethnic media
- Ethnic nationalism
- Ethnic pornography
- Ethnic theme park
- Ethnoburb
- Ethnocracy
- Ethnopluralism
- Ethnographic film
- Ethnographic village
- Indigenous rights
- Middleman minority
- Minority rights
- Model minority
- Model minority myth
- Multinational state
ethnic conflict
- Minzu (anthropology)
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