By What Criteria Should Ethnographic Research Be Judged?

There is considerable debate about what constitutes good ethnography; and, indeed, about what counts as ethnography. ¹ These issues raise important questions both about the relationship between ethnography and other forms of social research, and about that between the methods of the social and natural sciences. And the point at which all these issues bite most deeply is the question of what criteria should be employed in the assessment of ethnographic studies.