How to define holistic ethnography?

Question

How to define holistic ethnography?

Answer 1

The whole point of anthropology is to study the group in isolation....that's the whole way you can study something in purity without outside influences.

I think you mean holisitic ethnology.....it is the study of culture through every lens possible:

language, art, religion, music, traditions, education, marriage rites....everything basically...that is what holistic means.

ethnography is the writing cultures...not the study...that's ethnology.

Answer 2

my advice is...

any define u want>get it ur self

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Answer 3

an ethnography is a study of people.  whichever anthropological slant it comes from, if it describes a culture it is an ethnography.  The problem is, many anthropologists study behaviour tradition and culture in a vacuum, looking at the group in isolation.  or it focuses on division of labour, food preparation, magic rituals, response to globalisation, etc etc.  holistic ethnography is looking at a group of people in a more encompassing way, looking at all facets, internal, external.  the probem is that no ethnography is truly holistic.  there is always a lense, a slant, a bias.  and no anthropologist truly has access to all facets anyway.  but it is helpful to try if you want to explain and not just describe.