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The 127 pages that link to Ethnography, each with the reason it gives.

• Travel writingRelated: Travel writers borrow its close attention to social practices, though usually with different aims.

• Colonial historiographyRelated: Colonial ethnographies often turned living societies into fixed cultural types within historical accounts.

• Field researchBroader topic: Extended field engagement is a defining way ethnographies build contextual understanding.

• Clifford GeertzRelated: Geertz presented ethnographic writing as an interpretive account of situated cultural meanings.

• EthnologyCompared with: Ethnography supplies detailed accounts that ethnology compares across societies.

• Field notesNarrower topic: Field notes are a foundational record in many ethnographic studies.

• Social scienceBroader topic: It captures meanings and practices that standardized measures can miss.

• Victor TurnerNarrower topic: Turner’s concepts emerged from extended ethnographic research rather than abstract theory alone.

• Action researchCompared with: Ethnography primarily interprets cultural life, while action research couples inquiry with deliberate change.

• Dell HymesRelated: Ethnographic fieldwork supplies the contextual evidence Hymes’s approach requires.

• Edmund LeachNarrower topic: Leach’s theoretical claims drew on detailed accounts of communities he studied.

• Richard Francis BurtonRelated: Burton's detailed observations are historically valuable but reflect his own assumptions and period.

• SinologyCompared with: Ethnography emphasizes lived practices, complementing Sinology's historic focus on texts.

• Bruno LatourRelated: Latour used close observation of laboratories to study science as work in progress.

• Culture and personalityRelated: Ethnographic evidence anchored claims about how cultural practices shape everyday dispositions.

• De administrando imperioNarrower topic: Its accounts of neighboring peoples helped shape later knowledge of them.

• Harriet MartineauRelated: Martineau argued for disciplined observation in studying customs and institutions.

• HistoriesRelated: Descriptions of foreign customs broaden the work beyond military events.

• The NuerNarrower topic: The Nuer is a classic example of ethnographic description and analysis.

• Al-MasudiRelated: His accounts compared customs, beliefs, and social practices across communities.

• Commentarii de Bello GallicoRelated: Caesar’s descriptions of Gauls and Germans make accounts of opponents part of his military narrative.

• Daisy BatesNarrower topic: Bates’s observations and written records are commonly discussed as amateur ethnography.

• European folkloreRelated: Ethnography documents the social settings in which folklore is told and practiced.

• Islamic studiesRelated: Ethnography brings contemporary Muslim practices and communities into the field’s evidence base.

• Political anthropologyNarrower topic: Long-term fieldwork reveals political practices that official records and institutional accounts can miss.

• Central Asian studiesRelated: Fieldwork documents social practices that written archives may overlook.

• Colonial scienceRelated: Colonial ethnography classified populations in ways that could support governance and racial hierarchies.

• Harold GarfinkelCompared with: Garfinkel’s approach differs from conventional ethnography by centering members’ methods of producing order.

• Psychological anthropologyRelated: Ethnography grounds psychological claims in observed practices and participants’ own interpretations.

• Research methodBroader topic: It illustrates a field-based approach centered on social practices and context.

• Academic researchBroader topic: It shows how fieldwork can produce detailed accounts of social life.

• American studiesRelated: Ethnography grounds studies of American communities in lived practices and local knowledge.

• Antonio PigafettaNarrower topic: Pigafetta’s observations are used as evidence about societies encountered by the expedition.

• Applied anthropologyNarrower topic: It provides detailed accounts of practices that applied work seeks to understand.

• Cultural universalRelated: Ethnographic records provide evidence about whether practices are present in particular societies.

• Educational researchRelated: It reveals classroom routines and meanings that standardized measures can miss.

• EthnohistoryRelated: Ethnographic methods inform interpretations of cultural practices across time.

• History of anthropologyNarrower topic: Ethnography became anthropology’s central way of producing detailed accounts of social life.

• Legal anthropologyRelated: It lets researchers examine legal practice as participants experience it.

• Practical theologyBroader topic: It reveals the implicit beliefs and power relations embedded in congregational routines.

• Visual anthropologyNarrower topic: Visual anthropology is one way to conduct and communicate ethnographic inquiry.

• EthnobiologyCompared with: Ethnography studies culture broadly, while ethnobiology centers relations with living things.

• Fei XiaotongNarrower topic: Fei’s village research brought ethnographic methods to the study of Chinese society.

• Jules Dumont d'UrvilleRelated: His accounts of Pacific communities became part of European knowledge shaped by nineteenth-century expedition writing.

• Lila Abu-LughodNarrower topic: Her long-term fieldwork in Egypt grounds her analyses of everyday life and social relations.

• Mary KingsleyNarrower topic: Kingsley recorded customs and beliefs through close observation during her travels.

• Robert LowieRelated: Lowie relied on detailed ethnographic observation to document Indigenous societies.

• The Travels of Marco PoloRelated: Descriptions of customs and communities invite comparison with later ethnographic practice.

• Amadou Hampâté BâNarrower topic: Ethnographic methods informed how Bâ recorded cultural knowledge and social life.

• East Asian studiesRelated: Supplies close accounts of contemporary communities that archives alone cannot provide.