The Foucaultian stance - that discourse is what defines the object and allows it to emerge in certain contexts - was the origin of a radical turn in ethnographic studies, in which the classic view was that such studies were only descriptive of a culture.
La postura foucaltiana respecto a que el discurso es el que conforma el objeto y posibilita su emergencia en los contextos determinados supuso un giro radical respecto a las posturas clásicas de estudios etnográficos meramente descriptivos de una cultura.