Ethnography

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26. Ethnography :

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—The field of anthropological research based on direct observation of and reporting on a people's way of life.

The basic methodology employed by cultural anthropologists, it consists of two stages:
-fieldwork, which is the term used for the process of observing and recording data;
-and reportage, the production of a written description and analysis of the subject under study.

This discipline has been useful to colonial discourse in constructing a hierarchy of cultures.