- Martin Grossner
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Basic Classical Ethnographic Research Methods
This document is another in the Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems (the EICCARS) Working Paper Series. In another of these working papers, titled What is Ethnography? Methodological, and Epistemological Attributes, I posit two of the attributes as: (1) ethnography includes both qualitative and quantitative methods; and (2) ethnography includes both classical and non‑classical ethnographic approaches. The argument for the first is supported by the fact that while methods that are considered to be qualitative have long been the dominant methods paradigm in ethnography, many ethnographers trained in anthropology have also long used quantitative methods as well, as the anthropological ethnographer learns to be opened to any and all methods that can help him or her best understand the cultural system in which he or she is studying...
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