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ethnographic
[ eth-nuh-graf-ik ]
adjective
- 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 Words From
- eth·no·graph·i·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of ethnographic1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
This was sometimes true, but the ethnographic and archeological records show that group sizes were often large.
A paper published in Science in 2019 had revealed that music is produced in all ethnographically distinct cultures, and that similar forms of beats and tunes are used.
The pueblos recently completed an ethnographic study of the region for the U.S.
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