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It was felt that a focus on primitive societies would give a view of the elementary workings of society and that. The idea of going native = completely adopting the lifestyle of the host communities and never going home. The account by an ethnographer of how a young woman was assaulted and the way the community dealt. To a historian the assault on ina mone would have been invisible as the tribe does not keep records and thus. To a sociologist or criminologist the case would also be invisible as they rely on surveys and questionnaires- the. Based on the idea that in order to understand ppl, it is best to observe and interact with them over a long. Ethnography is to the cultural or social anthropologist what lab research is to the biologist, archival research to the historian period of time.