Ethnography is a careful written picture of how a group of people live. The researcher often spends a long time with them, joins daily life, and then writes what those lives mean to the people themselves — food, work, jokes, rules, silences. It is description first, close-up.

Ethnography is a careful written picture of how a group of people liveEthnography是一種仔細寫下來的畫面，描寫一群人是怎麼生活的。The researcher often spends a long time with them研究者常常會花很長的時間跟他們相處joins daily life加入他們的日常生活and then writes what those lives mean to the people themselves然後寫下這些生活對他們自己來說代表什麼— food, work, jokes, rules, silences像是食物、工作、玩笑、規矩、沉默。It is description first, close-up它首重描寫，是近距離的描寫。

Old learner dictionaries called it “the scientific description of different races.” That “race” wording is a leftover from an older time. Modern ethnography is about peoples and cultures; “race” as a simple scientific box is something scholars now treat with great care, or reject. The word is academic.

Old learner dictionaries called it "the scientific description of different races."舊的學習型字典把它稱為「the scientific description of different races」（不同種族的科學性描述）。That "race" wording is a leftover from an older time那個「race」的用詞，是舊時代留下來的痕跡。Modern ethnography is about peoples and cultures現代的ethnography談的是各民族和文化"race" as a simple scientific box is something scholars now treat with great care, or reject而「race」這種簡單的科學分類方式，現在學者會非常謹慎地看待，甚至拒絕使用。The word is academic這個字是學術用語。

Though actually, people also stretch it: “an ethnography of the office” or of an online game — still a thick, on-the-ground picture, just not of a faraway village.

Though actually, people also stretch it不過其實，人們也會延伸使用這個字: "an ethnography of the office" or of an online game像是「an ethnography of the office」（一份辦公室的民族誌）或針對線上遊戲的— still a thick, on-the-ground picture, just not of a faraway village依然是一幅豐富、實地的畫面，只是描寫的不是遙遠的村落。