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ethnohistorical

ethnohistorical

8.8
About the study of a people's history and culture using old records and traditions
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛθnoʊhɪsˈtɔrɪkəl/
  • Specialized
: etnohistórico
  • The researcher used ethnohistorical methods to explore the cultural practices of ancient communities.
  • ethnohistorical research
  • ethnohistorical sources
  • ethnohistorical data

Examples

  • A more thorough-going examination of the ethnohistorical records would reveal more about the tactics of the Conquest.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Primarily basing reconstructions of past practices on ethnohistorical accounts distorts the understanding of Wendat ritual beliefs and practices.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Other ethnohistorical data also suggest that the move to the missions was far from an "acceptable alternative."

    Academic text (2006)
  • Using the Northern Cheyennes as an ethnohistorical example, this presentation has two purposes.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Ethnohistorical studies of cultural change during four decades have demonstrated that no "traditional ethnographic present" ever existed.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Cross-cultural and ethnohistorical analogies are effective heuristics for addressing archaeological questions when they are supported with other forms of evidence.

    Academic text (2017)
  • In this work, he analyzes a major aspect of contemporary Hopi religion from both ethnohistorical and ethnohermeneutical considerations.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Cultural biases were minimized through primary ethnohistorical evidence, which detailed the method of census-taking on the Tongue River Reservation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In ethnohistorical treatments of captivity narratives, textual descriptions are sometimes presented simply as early evidence for particular practices.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The data that we present in this essay sustain, we believe, the ethnohistorical interpretation of Pai sociopolitical structures that we presented in Wauba Yuma's People.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

ethnohistoric
vsethnohistorical
  • Specialized
1 9.2

Relating to studying a group's culture using old records and people's stories

is broader, covering cultures and their histories using both historical and ethnographic methods

Surface Forms

ethnohistorical positive

Morphology

ethnohistorical = historical (semi-transparent) = ethno + history + ical

The combining form 'ethno-' adds the cultural/people dimension to 'historical', but 'ethno-' is a technical form not familiar to all learners.

Etymology

Ethnohistorical joins ethno- ('people'), the same root you see in ethnic, with historical from history ('past events'). So an ethnohistorical study looks at the past lives of people and their cultures, mixing history and cultural study.