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ethnographyStudy of living cultures, using anthropological techniques like participant observation (where the anthropologist lives in the society being studied) and a reliance on informants. Ethnography has provided much data of use to archaeologists as analogies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The book stands as a significant study of legal culture and reminds its primary audience of scholars and graduate students the importance of analyzing new sources instead of relying on nineteenth-century ethnographers. Most ethnographers who examine school life in specific locations present acting white as a pervasive fact of high-school life for black adolescents. Were idealistic, sympathetic and talented ethnographers common in the colonial service, and did this kind of critical anthropology, separate from the high-minded theorizing in Leiden, lead to changes in administration? |
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