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writing). As a category of anthropological research, ethnography is characterized
by the first hand study of a small community or ethnic group. Such studied
combine to varying degree descriptive and analytical elements, the central
characteristics of conventional ethnographic are that they focus on one specific
culture or society and consider the theoretical or comparative generalizations
from the stand point of ethnographic example.”
(Seymour-Smith 1986: 98)
Regarding the strategy of ethnography David L. Sills in international
Encyclopedia of social sciences rightly says:
“The ethnographer tries not only to rely upon published out lines and
questionnaires, he shuns interviews with informants carried out in artificial
setting, and he avoids premature quantification and are over differentiated
measurement. Initially at least flexibility, curiosity, patience and experimentation
with many alternative devices and procedures are desirable.”
(1975: 175)
Frake and Goodenough in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology writes:
“Ideally ethnography constitutes the rule for producing anticipating and
interpreting appropriate culture behavior in given setting”.
(1996: 17)
Ethnography, Geertz says,
“ Ethnography interprets the flow of social discourse and fixed it as a historical
document”
(International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 1979: 419)
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