Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
33rd Annual European Conference
Publication Date
2007
City
Omaha, NE
Abstract
Anthropology is the science that studies peoples past and present, their cultures, and their histories as groups. When anthropologists undertake a study of an unfamiliar culture, they typically write ethnography. Ethnographic studies look at the patterns of interpretation that members of a cultural group invoke as they go about their daily lives.
An ethnography is a highly descriptive overview of a group’s knowledge, its beliefs, its social organization, how it reproduces itself, and the material world in which it exists.3 In short, ethnography is a process referred to by Clifford Geertz as “Writing Culture”. The purpose of this ethnographic field report is not only to describe and explain, but also to unfold a view of the world in which cultural alternatives can be measured against one another and used as a guide for the production of space.
Copyright Owner
Peter Goché
Copyright Date
2007
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Goché, Peter P., "Mealtime: European Traditions of Etiquette and Midwestern Custom" (2007). Architecture Conference Proceedings and Presentations. 40.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_conf/40
