Anthropology

=== Ethnography ===
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[[Ethnography]] is a method of analysing social or cultural interaction. It often involves [[participant observation]] though an ethnographer may also draw from texts written by participants of in social interactions. Ethnography views first-hand experience and social context as important.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Atkinson|first1=Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0PuxgEACAAJ|title=Handbook of Ethnography|last2=Coffey|first2=Amanda|last3=Delamont|first3=Sara|last4=Lofland|first4=Lyn|last5=Lofland|first5=John|last6=Lofland|first6=Professor Lyn H.|year=2001|publisher=Sage|isbn=978-0-7619-5824-6|language=en|page=4}}</ref>

[[Tim Ingold]] distinguishes ethnography from anthropology arguing that anthropology tries to construct general theories of human experience, applicable in general and novel settings, while ethnography concerns itself with fidelity. He argues that the anthropologist must make his writing consistent with their understanding of literature and other theory but notes that ethnography may be of use to the anthropologists and the fields inform one another.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ingold|first=Timothy|date=2008|title=Anthropology is not ethnography|url=https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/anthropology-is-emnotem-ethnography|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|language=English|volume=154|pages=69–92|issn=0068-1202}}</ref>