ABSTRACT

Ethnography is a word used to refer to a particular set of methods (participant observation and interviewing), a methodology that aims to make sense of how a population of people attach meanings to their social and political environment, and to the finished, written product of that research (Jackson 2008: 91; Gusterson 2009: 94; Schatz 2009: 5). Our focus in this chapter is less on the finished product and more on the methods and methodology associated with ethnography.