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ethnographer

American  
[eth-nahg-ruhf-er] / ɛθˈnɑg rəf ər /

noun

plural

ethnographers
  1. a person engaged in ethnography, especially an anthropologist.


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The only time Frandy has seen Sámi shaman in particular connected to amanita was when a Finnish ethnographer claimed in the 1940s that Inari Sámi noaiddit used to consume amanita with seven spots.

From National Geographic • Dec. 21, 2023

In the late 1850s, naturalist and ethnographer George Gibbs cared for a woolly dog named Mutton.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

Zora Neale Hurston, literary ethnographer of black life, proves a feisty subject for PBS’ ‘American Masters.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2023

"They didn't have the right to decide their own destiny, or to choose their own lives," says Aferdita Onuzi, an ethnographer who has studied the burrneshat.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2022

James Mooney, a distinguished ethnographer at the Smithsonian Institution, combed through colonial writings and government documents to conclude that in 1491 North America had 1.15 million inhabitants.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann