However, the term also refers to the product of this type of research, which of course normally takes a textual form.
As a result, ethnography is also sometimes seen as a genre of writing, one used to describe patterns of human social interaction in particular contexts.
[1] Within the context of ethnography, the term 'realism' is often used to refer to the assumptions that some kinds of ethnographic work make about the phenomena to be investigated, and how these are to be understood.
However, 'ethnographic realism' has also been used to refer to a style of writing that narrates the author's experiences and observations as if the reader were witnessing or experiencing events first hand.
George Marcus and Dick Cushman described and categorized realist ethnographies under certain characteristics.