Sources for describing an ethnography

One of the tasks for my paper is to look at scholarly sources and look at what their definition is of an ethnography and look at what they say about doing an ethnography.

The following are the sources that i got my information from...I used four books.

Basics of social research : qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Authors: W. Lawrence Neuman, Karen Robson


Ethnography : principles in practice
Authors: Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson


Reflexive ethnography : a guide to researching selves and others
Author: Charlotte Aull Davies


Ethnography
Author:John D. Brewer



Here is a summary of what i found

WHAT IS AN ETHNOGRAPHY

• It's origins lie in the 19 th century (western anthropology)
• the relation between ethnology and ethnography
• anthropologist upgrading their approach
• characteristics of ethnography (choosing a setting, gathering data --participant observation, informants usually small scale, analysis of data should be put into wider contexts.

DOING AN ETHNOGRAPHY

• Research technique usually qualitative
• securing access
• ethics (informed consent etc)
• language barrier?
• input alot of time
• issue of trust (better validity/reliability)

***I'm going to take this info and compare it to Ryan's work.