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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Other Word Forms

• autoethnographer noun

Example Sentences

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

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

But in 1892, Charles Lummis — Los Angeles’ pioneering historian, ethnographer, and founder of the Southwest Museum — was writing furiously in The Times about the disgrace of Indian schools.

From Los Angeles Times

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

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