Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An…

“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

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

“I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to be endlessly…

— Benedict Anderson

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

— John Van Maanen

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

The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their…

— Sherry Ortner

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

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most…

— Aleksandra Mir

“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

“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

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