Editing Autoethnography (section)

=== Mid-1800s ===
Anthropologists began conducting [[Ethnography|ethnographic research]] in the mid-1800s to study the cultures people they deemed "exotic" and/or "primitive."<ref name=":24" />{{Rp|page=6}} Typically, these early ethnographers aimed to merely observe and write "objective" accounts of these groups to provide others a better understanding of various cultures.<ref name=":24" /><ref name=":28">{{Cite book |last=Denzin |first=Norman K. |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412963909.n160 |title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods |publisher=SAGE |year=2008 |editor-last=Given |editor-first=Lisa M. |pages=311–318 |language=English |chapter=Evolution of Qualitative Research|doi=10.4135/9781412963909.n160 |isbn=9781412941631 }}</ref> They also "recognized and wrestled with questions of how to render textual accounts that would provide clear, accurate, rich descriptions of cultural practices of others"<ref name=":24" />{{Rp|page=7}} and "were concerned with offering valid, reliable, and objective interpretations in their writings."<ref name=":28" />{{Rp|page=312}}