emic

Adjective

emic (comparative more emic, superlative most emic)

1. Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
   • A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as...1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention
   • In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term 'dhow' has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.2015, John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie, Faisal al-Naimi, “Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubārah, Qatar: the dāw exposed?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 45...