ethnographic

[ 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 Words From

• eth·no·graph·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of ethnographic¹

ethno- ( def ) + -graphic ( def )

Example Sentences

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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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.

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