ethnographic

Rarely eth·no·graph·i·cal

[eth-nuh-graf-ik]

adjective

1. of or relating to ethnography, the branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures.

   Ethnographic information indicates that trips to harvest wild hot peppers were important social and economic ventures among Apache peoples in the region.

Other Word Forms

• ethnographically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of ethnographic¹

ethno- ( def. ) + -graphic ( def. )

Example Sentences

The items had been held in the Vatican Museum's ethnographic collection, known as the Anima Mundi museum.

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For the study, Hewlett and colleagues use observational and ethnographic data to examine nine different modes of cultural transmission, meaning from whom and how children learn, in hunter-gatherer societies.

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Matrilineal avuncularity is known from a few ethnographic and historical examples, he notes, such as the Iroquois of North America, and is often unrelated to concerns about female fidelity.

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For Morin and his colleagues, the study was its own exercise in endurance: They spent more than 5 years exploring the ethnographic literature and other sources, surveying more than 8000 texts spanning about 500 years.

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This was sometimes true, but the ethnographic and archeological records show that group sizes were often large.

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