Discuss the characteristics of participant-observation and how this method contributes to ethnographic understanding. How is this method characteristically different from other methods of social science research?
*The anthropologists goes native.
*Eating a people’s food, speaking their languages and personally experiencing their habits and customs.
*One learns by learning how to behave acceptably.
*Careful observation is needed for an in-depth overview.
*Social, political, economic and religious institutions must be examined.
*The holistic perspective is used.