Thompson’s archival and oral-history method was akin to anthropological participant-observation

Evidence

Culturalism (Grokipedia)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture; Archival productions should be read as ethnography, not just normative taxonomies.; Early archival microhistories worked in archives but did not treat them as ethnographic subjects — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 289

Related

• Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture (similarity 0.89)
• Hoggart’s work resembles ethnographic techniques such as participant observation to provide an insider view (similarity 0.83)
• Archival productions should be read as ethnography, not just normative taxonomies. (similarity 0.81)