Question

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic accounts to reconstruct the lives of the earliest people.

Answer 1

Disadvantages –

It takes a lot of time to get data from ethnographic accounts.

Involves a lot of risk including the safety of the researcher. It is also complicated and inaccurate in some aspects.

Advantages –

You get original and unhampered sources of history from ethnographic accounts.

The researcher gets more results and rewarding evidences by investing lesser effort than excavation.