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Ethnography is a genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena that is based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents results of holistic research methods founded on the idea that system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other. In academic traditions, the constructivist and relativist paradigms employ ethnographic research as a crucial research method. Since ethnography is the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
Contemporary ethnography, which is the focal point of this paper, is based almost entirely on fieldwork. Ethnographies are written in many styles and in many formats. A typical ethnography describes the history of the group, the geography of the location, kinship patterns, symbols, politics, economic systems, educational or socialization systems, and the degree of contact between the target culture and the......

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