Fieldwork, then, involves the disciplined study of what the world is like to people who have learned to see, hear, speak, think, and act in ways that are dif-ferent
Ethnography is the work of describing a culture
Ethnography – work of describing a culture The goal of an ethnographer is “to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world.”
We need a theory of meaning and a spe-cific methodology designed for the investigation of it
The ethnographer sees artifacts and natu-ral objects but goes beyond them to discover what meanings people assign to these objects.
the true work of ethnographer
understand another way of life from the native point of view.
the work of ethnographic fieldwork is to understand and observe new cultures
field work
Speaking of fieldwork and coevalness…