Ethnography and cinema both seek to capture cultural essences.

Evidence

Ethnography and cinema, in this argument, share a legacy of attempting to capture cultural essences through evidence such as cultural and religious practice, social and kinship networks, food, dress, social institutions, and other objects of the ethnographic gaze. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 363

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the shared epistemic project of ethnography and cinema as the capture of cultural essences.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnographic study of tech culture requires in-person witnessing, not just digital observation. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 29