THE ECOCULTURAL PROJECT AT HUMAN-DEVELOPMENT - WHY ETHNOGRAPHY AND ITS FINDINGS MATTER

Ethnography produces believable findings that matter both to those we study and to the social sciences. Ethnography is best suited to unders tanding human development as an adaptive project of individuals and co mmunities-that is, what families and communities are trying to accompl ish to meet their goals in their cultural world, and the cultural path ways that are available for children to achieve those goals.