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ethnographer

ethnographer noun: one who practices ethnography.

Noun

ethnographer (plural ethnographers)

  1. One who practices ethnography.
    • First, some ethnographers would argue that reconceptualizing groupness is necessary to better understand sharedness as a quality of group communication.2002, Lawrence R. Frey, New Directions in Group Communication
    • The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87

Forms of ethnographer

pluralethnographers

Origin of ethnographer

From ethno- + -grapher.

Words formed from ethnographer

Questions about ethnographer

What does ethnographer mean?
Ethnographer means one who practices ethnography.
What part of speech is ethnographer?
Ethnographer is a noun.
What is the plural of ethnographer?
The plural of ethnographer is ethnographers.

Words near ethnographer in the dictionary

  1. ethnogeriatric
  2. ethnogeriatrics
  3. ethnogogue
  4. ethnogogues
  5. ethnogrammar
  6. ethnographer
  7. ethnographers
  8. ethnographic
  9. ethnographic present
  10. ethnographic presents
  11. ethnographical

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