ethnography
[eth-nog-ruh-fee]
- a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures.
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This question is, indeed, one which every ethnographer ought to keep clearly and constantly before his mind.
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2)Andrew Lang
Nevertheless, there are certain other sources which convey information of use to the ethnographer.
I have here rapidly sketched a series of pictures from nature, which the historian and ethnographer will not fail to recognize.
The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of RacesArthur, comte de Gobineau
They are by no means a contemptible study either for the psychologist or the ethnographer.
The Strange Story of Rab RbyMr Jkai
Southern Baluchistan affords a most interesting field for the ethnographer.
ethnography
- the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of individual human societies
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ethnography
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ethnography
[ĕth-nŏg′rə-fē]
- The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
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