Anthropology is Not Ethnography

This lecture presents the text of the speech about the differences between anthropology and ethnography delivered by the author at the 2007 Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology held at the British Academy. It explains that the objective of anthropology is to seek comparative understanding of human beings, while ethnography aims to describe the lives of people other than ourselves. The lecture also discusses the distinction between idiographic and nomothetic inquiry.

# Anthropological Studies and Insights # Social Sciences # Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture # Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis

Tim Ingold (2008). "Anthropology is Not Ethnography". British Academy eBooks. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264355.003.0003