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ethnoscape

ethnoscape noun: a transnational distribution of correlated people.

Noun

ethnoscape (plural ethnoscapes)

  1. A transnational distribution of correlated people.
    • The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    • Is an ethnoscape preserved as a tourist attraction still an ethnoscape? In the English case, David Lowenthal suspects it is not: “The heritage landscape is less and less England, more and more 'England-land,' Europe's offshore theme park. […]2006, Katrina Z. S. Schwartz, Nature and National Identity After Communism, page 200

Forms of ethnoscape

pluralethnoscapes

Origin of ethnoscape

From ethno- + -scape.

Questions about ethnoscape

What does ethnoscape mean?
Ethnoscape means a transnational distribution of correlated people.
What part of speech is ethnoscape?
Ethnoscape is a noun.
What is the plural of ethnoscape?
The plural of ethnoscape is ethnoscapes.

Words near ethnoscape in the dictionary

  1. ethnorelativity
  2. ethnoreligion
  3. ethnoreligious
  4. ethnoreligiously
  5. ethnos
  6. ethnoscape
  7. ethnoscapes
  8. ethnoscience
  9. ethnosciences
  10. ethnoscientific
  11. ethnoscientifically

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