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ethnographic

ethnographic adjective: relating to ethnography.

Adjective

ethnographic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to ethnography.
    • Among anthropologists old ethnographic descriptions and travelbooks have a bad reputation. With the exception of ethnohistorians, anthropologists make little use of these sources for ethnographic research because of their reputed lack of reliability.1991, Jean Kommers, “Between Structure and Context: Sources, Source Criticism, and Alterity Studies”, in Raymond Corbey, Joep Leerssen, editors, Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in...
    Synonyms:
    ethnographical

ethnographic meaning in Arabic

ethnographic in Arabic

of, or relating to ethnography
إِثْنُوغْرَافِيّ ʔiṯnūḡrāfiyy

Examples of ethnographic in a sentence

  • When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation.
  • Which of the following ethnographic studies indicate the use of the “emic” approach?
  • In all three ethnographic studies, we repeatedly heard an oscillation between praxiological and mediological convictions.

All 16 example sentences with ethnographic

Synonyms of ethnographic

Origin of ethnographic

From ethnography + -ic.

Words formed from ethnographic

Phrases with ethnographic

Questions about ethnographic

What does ethnographic mean?
Ethnographic means relating to ethnography.
What is ethnographic in Arabic?
Ethnographic in Arabic is إِثْنُوغْرَافِيّ (ʔiṯnūḡrāfiyy). See Ethnographic meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is ethnographic?
Ethnographic is an adjective.

Words near ethnographic in the dictionary

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

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