ethnographer
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Some of this he talks out with an ethnographer named Mark de Rond who suggests that it’s empowering to draw a line between good and evil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
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
There, she documented the origin myths and oral traditions of the Malagasy people as an ethnographer.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 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
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
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
Early European ethnographers thought the Coast Salish were exclusively hunter-gatherers who had not domesticated any animals, including dogs.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 13, 2023
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
These are the Telamni of the ethnographers, and are repeatedly mentioned by the early explorers.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook
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