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rmenurse

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What is an ethnography?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What does anthropological fieldwork entail?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

An ethnography is a written description of the way of life of some human group.

Answer to Question 2

It entails moving into the community, living in close contact with the people studied while observing and interviewing the members of a society, region, or community to describe their contemporary way of life.



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