Abstract
Anthropology and ethnography appear to be joined at the hip. According to the online Oxford dictionary (2013), anthropology refers to the study of humans and human behaviour and societies, past and present. As such, anthropology is concerned with the comparative study of societies and human diversity, and asks interpretative questions about behaviour, meaning, development and value between different societies and cultures. It is also known as cultural or social anthropology in order to differentiate itself from physical anthropology, the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution. Clifford Geertz has suggested that all anthropological writings are interpretations of interpretations. So, perhaps it stands to reason that, if anthropology is about the study of people and cultures, ethnography is about the writing with regards to people and cultures. And this leads us to ethnographic inquiry.
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