Ethnography

Definitions

1. The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.
   countable, uncountable
2. An ethnographic work.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“By the end⟳ of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure⟳ that was essentially historical.”

“As intellectuals read⟳ the written text, compile ethnographies, tour the non-Western terrain, and make⟳ art out of the charred remnants of these quests, we always run⟳ the risk⟳ of fortifying the old culture with neomythologies that continue⟳ to invade the private space of others.”

CEFR level