Ethnographic realism

Ethnographic realism

Within the field of anthropology and other social sciences, ethnography is a genre of writing used to describe human social and cultural interactions. Ethnographic realism is a style of ethnographic writing that narrates the author's experiences and observations as if the reader was witnessing or experiencing events first hand. A work written using ethnographic realism may be referred to as a realist ethnography, and classified as a subgenre of ethnography.

tyles of ethnographic realism

George Marcus and Dick Cushman described and categorized realist ethnographies under certain characteristics.

Totalizing description

Omniscient narration

Native interpretation

Generalizations

Jargon

Notable realist ethnographies and writers


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