The first 2 articles were just describing and defining what ethnography was, the 3rd one was about a woman named Margaret Mead who used Ethnography to write a book about a culture in Samoa. Since we had already talked about what an ethnography were in essence in class the first 2 were pretty much just refreshers on what it was. The second was was a little more interesting since it was about a book someone wrote and how she went about gathering information for it.
The first article was just a page with different definitions for ethnography from different sources like Merriam-Webster and The New Oxford American Dictionary. They all pretty much said the same thing about ethnography, that it was a process in which people try to understand a society that they may not be familiar with.
The second article was just the wiki page about ethnography going over the definition and the basics of ethnography. It also have the insight from different fields of study and how ethnography pertained to that field. It also elaborated on the ethics and ways to evaluate ethnography.
The last article was the most interesting as it was about a book that was produced using ethnography. The book she wrote was top book in the world of anthropology for a while, even though a guy named Derek Freeman said her work was false.
All of these articles were pretty interesting to read and really gave me a different look at what all ethnography entailed and how it has been used in different fields of study. It was interesting to see how Mead gathered her research and how it was received by different people.
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