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Contextualization, culture, descriptive field notes, emic perspective, etic perspective, ethnography, field diary, field jottings, field log, field notes, holistic perspective, participant observation, reflective field notes, triangulation ...
Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.