ethnographic

American  

[eth-nuh-graf-ik] / ˌɛθ nəˈgræf ɪk /

Rarely ethnographical

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.

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Other Word Forms

• ethnographically adverb

Etymology

Origin of ethnographic

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

Example Sentences

Dr Conor Murray, a senior lecturer in criminology at Ulster University, is the author of Young Men, Masculinities and Imprisonment: An ethnographic study in Northern Ireland.

From BBC

Silverstein’s ethnographic approach to customer research helped form Coach’s marketing strategy to keep them coming after the trend waned.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is the summation of the ethnographic fieldwork, bold hypotheses and sweeping synthesis unique to this scholar of rural resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

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.

From Science Daily