ethnography

[ eth-nog-ruh-fee ]

/ ɛθˈnɒg rə fi /

noun

a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures.

Origin of ethnography

First recorded in 1825–35; ethno- + -graphy

OTHER WORDS FROM ethnography

eth·nog·ra·pher, noun eth·no·graph·ic

[eth-nuh-graf-ik] /ˌɛθ nəˈgræf ɪk/, eth·no·graph·i·cal, adjective eth·no·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby ethnography

ethnobotany, ethnocentrism, ethnog., ethnogeny, ethnogeography, ethnography, ethnography of speaking, ethnohistory, ethnol., ethnolinguistics, ethnology

Example sentences from the Web for ethnographic

There is plenty of ethnographic literature about inner cities that refers to what used to be called “corner men.”

Paul Ryan’s New Plan Is a Good One, Especially for Black People |John McWhorter |July 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
As such, they also provide a kind of ethnographic record of tensions and conflicts in a society.

Beauty and Subversion in the Secret Poems of Afghan Women |Daniel Bosch |April 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
My ethnographic and experimental work confirmed this again and again.

We Talk With God: What Evangelical Christians Hear |TM Luhrmann |February 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This interesting field of ethnographic investigation is, even at this late day, practically unworked.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 |Various

This material bears little resemblance to the collections or ethnographic descriptions from the extreme south of the peninsula.

A Burial Cave in Baja California |William C. Massey
As an ethnographic province the greater part of California plainly forms a unit.

The Religion of the Indians of California |A. L. Kroeber
From a poverty of ethnographic material with the more northerly tribes we pass to an embarrassment of riches with the Pomo.

The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California |Sherburne Friend Cook
The ethnographic sources consist of the works of Merriam, Barrett, and Kroeber.

The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California |Sherburne Friend Cook

British Dictionary definitions for ethnographic

ethnography

/ (ɛθˈnɒɡrəfɪ) /

noun

the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of individual human societies

Derived forms of ethnography

ethnographer, noun ethnographic (ˌɛθnəʊˈɡræfɪk) or ethnographical, adjective ethnographically, adverb

Scientific definitions for ethnographic

ethnography

[ ĕth-nŏg′rə-fē ]

The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.

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