ethnographical
- adjective
- /ˌɛθnəˈɡræfɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
etnográfico
- His book presents an ethnographical analysis of the social structures within various cultures across the globe.
- ethnographical museum
Examples
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Visser's collections in the Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde (now the Ethnologisches Museum) once amounted to some 600 ethnographical objects.
Academic text (2002) -
Compared with modern ethnographical fieldwork and studies of literate peoples, these circumstances impose great limitations on our research.
Academic text (1995) -
Second, do many of them accept being collected by and displayed in ethnographical institutions?
Academic text (2002) -
Bird's ethnographical model is indeed a balanced one that most scholars could adapt.
Academic text (1996) -
Through personal observations, ethnographical research, and library research, Griffin is persuasive in his description of a holy place.
Academic text (1993) -
In a short article, Kusters stressed the significance of the ivories' iconography as historical and ethnographical sources (p. 120).
Academic text (1997) -
During his residence, he collected a plenitude of ethnographica for the ethnographical museums in Berlin, Leipzig, and Stuttgart.
Academic text (2002) -
The research on which this paper is based was undertaken in the course of thirteen months, from January 1964 to January 1965, during which I continued ethnographical survey work in the Yoruba-speaking region, following on from Kenneth Murray and Philip Allison.
Academic text (1994) -
I was an ethnologist or cultural anthropologist—and was at first a "generalist," handling the whole ethnographical field (I would then, if asked to choose my favorite tribe, probably have selected the Nagas.)
Academic text (1994) -
The research team conducted an ethnographical study to understand the traditions and customs of the indigenous tribes in the region.
Synonyms
16
7.3
Relating to the study of people, their communities and cultures
5
7.9
Relating to studies that describe people and their cultures
1
9.5
About the study of different groups of people and their cultures
About studying different groups of people and how they live
How Detailed
298
4.6
- Specialized
353
3.7
28
4.0
94
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
ethnographical = ethnographic (transparent) = ethnography + ic + al
The final -al forms an adjectival variant of 'ethnographic'; the meaning is directly related to ethnography.
Etymology
Ethnographical comes from the Greek root ethno- meaning 'people' and the ending -graphy meaning 'writing' or 'study', as in photography. So ethnographical describes work that records or studies different peoples and their cultures.