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Exploring Ethnography: A Quiz on Cultural Research Methods

This quiz tests your knowledge of ethnography, its connections to various fields, and key figures in the discipline. Explore the diverse applications and theoretical underpinnings of ethnographic research.

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1 Ethnography has connections to genres as diverse as travel writing, colonial office reports, the play and the ________.

2 ________ and social anthropology were developed around ethnographic research and their canonical texts which are mostly ethnographies: e.g.

3 Scholars of ________ use ethnographic research methods to analyze communication behaviors, seeking to answer the "why" and "how come" questions of human communication.

4 Ethnography (Greek ἔθνος ethnos = folk/people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is a qualitative research method often used in the social sciences, particularly in ________ and in sociology.

5 ________, economics, social work, education, ethnomusicology, folklore, geography, history, linguistics, communication studies, performance studies, psychology and criminology are other fields which have made use of ethnography.

6 In the 1980s, the rhetoric of ethnography was subjected to intense scrutiny within the discipline, under the general influence of ________ and post-colonial/post-structuralist thought.

7 ________ is another field which prominently features ethnographies.

8 As ethnography developed, anthropologists grew more interested in less tangible aspects of culture, such as values, worldview and what ________ termed the "ethos" of the culture.

9 "Experimental" ethnographies that reveal the ferment of the discipline include Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man by ________, Debating Muslims by Michael F.

10 ________'s own fieldwork used elements of a phenomenological approach to fieldwork, tracing not just the doings of people, but the cultural elements themselves.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • one ethnographic source suggests that the Zombie palm, Zombia antillarum (pictured), a native of the island of Hispaniola, can be used to awaken zombies or protect against their spying.
  • the ethnographic collection of Swedish missionary Karl Edvard Laman and his wife included 12 human skulls.
  • the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775.
  • a substantial part of the Sami costume collection in the National Museum of Denmark's Ethnography Department was collected by Emilie Demant Hatt.
  • Yukon storyteller Angela Sidney was awarded the Order of Canada for contributions to ethnography.
  • Bronisław Malinowski's ethnography Coral Gardens and their Magic describes magic spells used in Trobriand agriculture as a pragmatic component of human behaviour.
  • French ethnographer Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts.
  • 19th century Polish noble and farmer Stanisław Chełchowski (pictured) published academic works ranging from ethnography through agriculture to mycology.
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