ethnographer
noun
a person engaged in ethnography, especially an anthropologist.
ethnographers
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pluralof ethnographer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
In the 19th century, ethnographers observed surviving hunter-gatherer societies to look for clues that might inform their conclusions about the behaviors of these groups.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2023
Under the names Chontalli and Popoluca, both Nahuatl words indicating “foreigners,” ethnographers have included tribes of wholly diverse lineage.
From A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages by Daniel Garrison Brinton
