Ethnographised

Ethnographised is the past participle and adjective form of ethnographise, meaning to subject something to ethnographic methods or to present it in ethnographic form. The term is used primarily in anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines, and reflects British spelling (ethnographised) as opposed to the American ethnographized.

To ethnographise a setting involves fieldwork, participant observation, interviews, and the production of thick description that situates practices within their social and cultural contexts. The resulting ethnographised account aims to convey participants' perspectives and the meanings they attach to actions, objects, and spaces, while acknowledging the researcher's interpretive role.

Ethnographised materials may include field notes, narratives, case studies, or reports that are presented as ethnographic representations of a community, organization, or online culture. The term also describes the transformation of data into ethnographic form, such as ethnographised video ethnography or ethnographised case studies.

Scholars caution that ethnographising can risk essentialism or oversimplification if descriptions flatten diversity. Ethical considerations, consent, representation, and power relations between researchers and participants are central to responsible ethnographised work.

Originating from ethnography and the suffix -ise/-ize, ethnographised is used mainly in academic writing and is less common in everyday language. The variant ethnographized reflects American spelling.