ETNOGRAFI: MEMBUAT DATA BERCERITA
Abstract: This article aims to
show how one can organize ethnographic data in such a way that these data can
“tell a story”. As a socialand human science method ethnography has been used
byalmost all researchers of socio-cultural problems in a mannerin which it is
treated as something given as if anything could goin it and it can be
interpreted according to one’s own will. As aresult, ethnography is deprived of
its own meaning, and loses itsnature as a means of story-telling while lacking
its ability to account for the story it produces. This is the reason which has motivated
my effort to objectify in this article what anethnography should be like and
how as a social science methodit can describe a socio-cultural reality or an
imagination, andeven can make an imagination the very reality which a thick description
can bring about. Qualitative ethnographic data cantell a story at diagnostic or
interpretive level. In so doingethnographic descriptions become accountable
because these are based on an epistemological ground.
Keywords: Ethnography,
Ethnographic Description, Thick Description, Qualitative Diagnostic,
Qualitative Interpretive
Penulis: Ninuk
Kleden-Probonegoro
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd120079
