Enthography checklist

Students sometimes find it difficult to determine whether or not a work is an ethnography. Use this simple Enthography Checklist to guide you through the features that suggest ethnographic work.

• This work reflects a researcher’s participant observation.
• This work states when and where the work was conducted.
• This work describes and analyzes concrete events from the native’s point of view.
• This work describes and analyzes concrete events from the researcher’s point of view.
• This work links to wider cultural and social practices, values, beliefs.
• This work could be considered a case study.
• This work compares this case study to others out there.
• This work uses historical accounts (primary resources like diaries, letters, newspaper articles).
• The author of this work is a trained researcher.
• This work is scholarly/peer-reviewed.