ethnographer
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There are pictures of the women wearing the cloaks, and a 300-page notebook written by the person who brought the cloaks to Sweden - ethnographer Eric Van Rosen.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
Times editor, city librarian, pal of Teddy Roosevelt’s, lover, poet, Native American ethnographer, cultural preservationist and founder of L.A.’s first real museum, the Southwest Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
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
“The critical moment in the development of the young shepherd’s reputation is his first quarrel,” the ethnographer J. K. Campbell writes of one herding culture in Greece.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
In the 19th and early 20th Centuries Swedish explorers, ethnographers and botanists would pay to travel on British ships to Cape Town and then make their way inland by rail and foot.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
Historians and ethnographers say the Wintu were the predominant tribe around the site proposed for the casino complex, an expanse of meadow and scrubland that locals dub the Strawberry Fields because of its agricultural history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
For the Wowol the ethnographers give three villages, or an implied population of, say, 220.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
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