9. Ethnographic Techniques

9. Ethnographic Techniques

1. 9.1 The Importance of Observing and Registering What Was Observed

   • During the fieldwork we should pay much attention to the small details of everyday life, as the events that occur year after year and unusual events take place where the research is being carried out.
     • a field diary where you can record in detail all the impressions of what is observed (including odors or mental or graphic images).

2. 9.2 How to Obtain Information for an Interview

   • By participating in local life, one seeks to talk with as many people as possible.
     • the semi-structured interview (whose features have already been explained) or interview guide,
       • ethnography oriented to problems, is a technique used today by anthropologists to be introduced to field work to investigate a particular issue.
         • longitudinal research and team research.
           • The first works made in ethnography in distant geographical places (the African and Asian continents) complicated the access and the return to the place of study.