The term “ethnography” (from the Greek éthnos, “people”; gráphein, “to write”) denotes the description of a certain, primarily foreign culture. In a scholarly context, ethnography is a subdiscipline of ethnology, providing the empirical data for ethnological interpretation. The basis for scholarly descriptions of a culture is information obtained in stationary field research, primarily through interviews and participatory observation [2].

The roots of ethnography go back to Antiquity. The father of the discipline was the Greek historian Herodotus. O…