...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one…

— Arthur Kleinman

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first…

— William Graham Sumner

Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.

— Brian Solis

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos

“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight…

— Philippe Descola

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data…

— Clifford Geertz

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior…

— Marvin Harris

“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service. But as…

— Patricia L. Sunderland

“in addition to taking field notes, you should also consider making visual documentation by producing drawings or taking photographs and video recordings. This is…

— Gjoko Muratovski

“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the…

— Theodore C. Bestor

“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So of course…

— Waswo X Waswo

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about…

— Eboo Patel

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar