SALVAGE ETHNOGRAPHY Ethnography is a qualitative research method that is used by anthropologists to describe a culture. Culture has many definitions but usually consists of origins, values, roles, and material items associated with a particular group of people. Ethnographic research, therefore, attempts to fully describe a variety of aspects and norms of a cultural group to enhance understanding of the people being studied. When engaged in ethnography, the researcher must convert the complex experience of …showed first 75 words of 534 total…

…showed last 75 words of 534 total…Flaherty both used the traditional lives of the hunter-gatherers of North America as screens upon which to project the conservative European values they cherished: self-reliance, independence, the instinct to protect and sacrifice oneself for the family or tribal group. Both dramatized their lives, installing a survival narrative within an epic structure and shooting for continuity. It can be said that both productions attempted to change the depiction of Native Americans to a more objective view.