An ethnography is the first hand descriptive work of a particular group/culture based on the immersive observations of the researcher. It must incorporate participant-observation in which the researcher both observes the culture/group and participates in it to learn more.
Search using keywords for your topic instead of long sentences
Connect terms with AND, OR, NOT
Use quotes around phrases
To search ethnographies, search for it as a keyword, using *after the root:
Use either 'ethnography' OR 'ethnology' in combination with the name of the people you're researching or the geographic region in which they live.
Ex: choctaw AND Oklahoma AND 'ethnograph*
or
Ex2: ethnolog* AND blackfoot
Using * after the root of the word will get all versions of that word:
Ex: (ethnograph*) to get ethnograph, ethnography, ethnographical, ethnographies, ethnographer
Try using: interview, observation, participant-observation, analysis, case study, investigation, field research as possible terms.
To see if the author of your ethnography or article is an expert in the field (an Anthropologist), try doing this:
"Expertise.” YouTube, uploaded by d'Alzon Library, 18 June 2019, https://youtu.be/yU9JELSQGfU. 4:40 minutes
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