The word Ethnography comes from these two Greek words:”Ethnos”, meaning people & “Graphein”, meaning writing. Wolcott (1999) defines ethnography is a description of “the customary social behaviors of an identifiable group of people”.

Where did ethnography come from?

Ethnography, the writing of culture, traces its origins to ancient Greece. Herodotus, who is also known as the father of history, traveled from one culture to another to document the traditions and sociopolitical practices among people of the ancient world during the third century B.

Why was ethnography created?

Introduction: ethnography and anthropology

Ethnography is the practice developed in order to bring about that knowledge according to certain methodological principles, the most important of which is participant-observation ethnographic fieldwork.