Abstract: Ethnography, as a qualitative study or text, has a variety of theoretical paradigms or text types in the development of anthropology. At present, the commonly used types in academic circles are classified from the perspective of disciplinary development: amateur ethnography scientific ethnography and experimental ethnography. It can be found in the ethnographic paradigm of these different stages, there is a transformation phenomenon of the subject-object relationship of discourse power between ethnographers and their subjects, the discourse power of subject-object relationship is presented differently in ethnographic texts at different stages.Therefore, this paper intends to discuss ethnographic texts in different stages from the perspective of discourse power, and try to sort out the development context of discourse power in the development process of ethnographic texts, in order to provide a new research perspective for ethnographic texts.

Key words: ethnographic text, Discourse power, Amateur ethnography, Scientific ethnography, Experimental ethnography