Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

The collections of the museum encompass the following fields: natural history, archaeology, ethnography and local history.

Housed in large halls in George Gilbert Scott's University buildings on Gilmorehill, the museum features extensive displays relating to William Hunter and his collections, Roman Scotland ( especially the Antonine Wall, geology, ethnography, ancient Egypt, scientific instruments, coins and medals, and much more.

Prince Maximilian collected many examples of ethnography, and a large number of specimens of flora and fauna of the area, still preserved in museum collections, notably in the Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart.

The ethnography and music collections have Designated status.

It currently houses over 25 million objects and artifacts in its collections, which include ichthyology, paleontology ( both vertebrate and invertebrate ), botany, paleoboatany and palynology, herpetology, malacology, mammalogy, ornithology, environmental archaeology, historical archaeology, archeology of the Caribbean and Florida, and the ethnography of Latin and North Americas.

The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8, 000 square metres of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology and geology.

The Christy collection of ethnography in Victoria Street, London, was also under his care before its incorporation into the British Museum collections.

# redirect List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology

Throughout the interwar years, French interest in anthropology often dovetailed with wider cultural movements such as surrealism and primitivism, which drew on ethnography for inspiration.

* The former palace of the Genoese governors, which now accommodates a museum of Corsican ethnography.

More recently, the ethnography of speaking has been renamed the " ethnography of communication " to reflect the broadening of focus from instances of language production to the ways in which communication ( including oral, written, broadcast, acts of receiving / listening ) is conventionalized in a given community of users.

Sarmatae is in origin probably just one of several tribal names of the Sarmatians which came to be applied to the entire group as an exonym in Greco-Roman ethnography.

Despite these attempts of reflexivity no researcher can be totally unbiased, which has provided a basis to criticize ethnography.

Cultural studies, economics, social work, education, ethnomusicology, folklore, religious studies, geography, history, linguistics, communication studies, performance studies, advertising, psychology, usability and criminology are other fields which have made use of ethnography.

An ethnography is a specific kind of written observational science which provides an account of a particular culture, society, or community.

Primatologist Katherine Milton, however, has argued that the survey data on which this conclusion is based inflates the animal content of typical hunter-gatherer diets ; much of it was based on early ethnography which may have overlooked the role of women in gathering plant foods.

Veger's contributions to ethnography are embodied in dozens of conference papers, journal articles and books, and were recognized by Sorbonne University, which conferred upon him a doctoral degree ( Docteur 3eme Cycle ) in 1966 — quite a feat for someone who dropped out of high school at 17.

The Swedish missionaries, notably Karl Laman, encouraged the local people to write their history and customs in notebooks, which then became the source for Laman's famous and widely cited ethnography and their dialect became well established thanks to Laman's dictionary of Kikongo.

But in 1864 Brasseur published his French translation of Diego de Landa's recently recovered 1556 ethnographic manuscript, which decisively rejected the notion of Mayan circumcision, and in a footnote he acknowledged there had probably been a " mistake ", an admission that never found its way into the English-language literature although modern ethnography has long since understood the nature of these rituals.

:* ethnography, which involves direct participant observation

Of the reports of that expedition, Hale prepared the sixth volume, Ethnography and Philology ( 1846 ), which is said to have laid the foundations of the ethnography of Polynesia.

When Charles Darwin published The descent of man it was the beginning of the expansion of human geography, which till then was only rarely focused upon, except in the field of ethnography.

It differs from ethnography — a qualitative research method in which a researcher uses participant observation and interviews in order to gain a deeper understanding of a group's culture — in that autoethnography focuses on the writer's subjective experience rather than, or in interaction with, the beliefs and practices of others.

For instance, in the 1970s, autoethnography was more narrowly defined as " insider ethnography ," referring to studies of the ( culture of ) a group of which the researcher is a member ( Hayano, 1979 ).

The concept of autoethnography … synthesizes both a postmodern ethnography, in which the realist conventions and objective observer position of standard ethnography have been called into question, and a postmodern autobiography, in which the notion of the coherent, individual self has been similarly called into question.

He was arguably best known for The Children of Aataentsic, his two-volume study of the Huron peoples, a work which remains the definitive study on the history and ethnography of that people.

He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

The outstanding cultural leader was Carl Linnaeus ( 1707 – 78 ), whose work in biology and ethnography had a major impact on European science.

The work of structural interactionists such as Stryker and Kuhn has had a significant influence on subsequent symbolic interactionists, some of whom use survey research and experimental methods ( whereas " Chicago School " interactionism following Herbert Blumer's version relies on ethnography and qualitative in-depth interviewing ).

In the meantime, Mike Yates, the Folk Music Journal editor who had originally accepted Harker's article for publication in 1972, began to investigate the ethnography of Cecil Sharp for himself, travelling to America in his footsteps to do so.

However, from the 1970s that tendency was openly criticised, and Jeremy Boissevain ( Boissevain and Friedl 1975 ) said it most clearly: anthropologists had “ tribalised Europe ” and if they wanted to produce relevant ethnography they could no longer afford to do so.

In the Bronze Age, the region around the mountain complex had a somewhat checquered ethnography.

His main target was a poem by Gories Peerse, a merchant who had written an entertaining and somewhat slanderous poem about Icelandic geography and ethnography.

The Celtic " horned god ", while well attested in iconography, cannot be identified in description of Celtic religion in Roman ethnography and does not appear to have been given any interpretatio romana, perhaps due to being too distinctive to be translatable into the Roman pantheon.

For example, the anthropological method of ethnography has been used to describe teaching and learning in classrooms.

The name Etchemin has also been applied to other material from what many scholars of Algonquian ethnography and linguistics believe to be Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, or Eastern Abenaki.

" In past ethnography, the Khoisan have been referred to as the Capoid race because they can be visually distinguished from the Congoid Africans of Bantu origin.

Since its founding the Field Museum has been an international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography, and has long maintained close links, including joint teaching, students, seminars, with local universities — particularly the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago

Publications such as the Mankind Quarterly, founded as an explicitly " race-conscious " publication, have been accused of scientific racism for publishing articles on controversial interpretations of human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, language, mythology, archaeology, and race subjects.

The Historia general has been called “ one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed ,” and Bernardino has been called the father of American ethnography.

Insofar as Greenblatt has been explicit in expressing a theoretical orientation, he has identified the ethnography and theoretical anthropology of Clifford Geertz as highly influential.

The research he made in Africa has since been published in five volumes and sent in 1910 to Saint Petersburg ethnography.

The museum is well organized and displays have been housed in several departments like department of ethnography and decorative art, department of history and classical art, department of natural history, and department of contemporary and world civilization.

* Herbert Spinden Photographic Archive, with over 20, 000 images and documents related to Central American archaeology and ethnography from the early 20th century, including many images of important archaeological sites that have since been altered or destroyed.