Writing ethnography is a research methodology developed under anthropology in the colonial period by western scholars for empirical study of human societies based on long term feldwork. Initially this had produced monographs on many aboriginal groups. Socio-cultural anthropology was enriched with ethnographic feldwork and research output in the form of descriptive accounts on various ethnic groups. Some renowned ethnographies are Argonauts of the Western Pacifc (1922) by Bronisław Malinowski, Ethnologische Excursion in Johore (1875) by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) by Margaret Mead, The Nuer (1940) by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Naven (1936, 1958) by Gregory Bateson, and "The Lele of the Kasai" (1963) by Mary Douglas.