How to Do an Ethnography
How To Do Ethnography Throughout the world, societies have different interpretations of many aspects of life and different meanings for rituals within their culture. ... According to Spradley in "Ethnography and Culture", the goal of ethnography is to "understand another way of life from the natives point of view" (Spradley, 1). The first step in ethnography is to go to the place where the culture is being translated and set aside ones belief that everyone defines things the same way. ... Participant observation is important, because ethnography revolves around these meanings of different things in the society that make up a culture. ... This tactic knowledge is very significant in ethnography fieldwork because it reflects that the anthropologist doing the study needs to know how to get it. ... He begins the process of ethnography by traveling to the Yanomamo country.