S/S/36. Ethnography is both product and process. Discuss this statement with reference to both the Argonauts of the Western Pacific and The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea concentrating specifically on the institution of the Kula

This essay discusses ethnography, the defining method of social anthropology. It uses the Malinowskis famous ethnography of the Trobriands of Papua New Guinea and Weiners subsequent account, discussing a number of issues in relation to ethnography, including the role of history and the role of theory.