Ethnography means you embed yourself in a group, do a bunch of interviews, etc. It is a very hands-on and 1:1 kind of method. Your definition does not really ad

Ethnography means you embed yourself in a group, do a bunch of interviews, etc. It is a very hands-on and 1:1 kind of method. Your definition does not really adequately describe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography#Features_of_ethnographic_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography#Features_of_ethnog... (Wikipedia isn’t a perfect source here, but gives some idea.) This is a very different approach than sitting in an archive and reading old documents or running statistical analysis on government databases or .... But it is possible to investigate the same types of subjects using these different methods.