ethnographic
5
7.9
- adjective
- /ˌɛθnəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
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etnográfico
- The researchers conducted an ethnographic study to understand the community's unique traditions and practices.
- ethnographic research
- ethnographic study
- ethnographic observation
Now this is not, you know, this is a moralistic rather than an ethnographic treatise.
- Now this is not, you know, this is a moralistic rather than an ethnographic treatise.
- And so trying to imagine doing ethnographic field work in the style that I've, you know, been trained to do.
Examples
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The items that participants rated were generated from in-depth ethnographic interviews with adolescents in the community.
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The University of Ghent possesses an ethnographic collection of approximately 4,000 items from Africa, Oceania, America, and Asia.
Academic text (2008) -
So she was doing ethnographic studies at home.
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OK, Yeah, my, my own work has been ethnographic field work.
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In Europe, most African art in public collections is to be found in ethnographic museums.
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You mentioned my ethnographic fieldwork in the Amazon.
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Beads are noted in many archaeological records and found in ethnographic collections throughout the world.
Academic text (1999) -
You know, the pursuit of that little preparation opened up these historic and ethnographic vistas that no one had seen before.
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The third case comes from ethnographic research on women's activism in Central Nepal.
Academic text (2008) -
The study used an emergent design, ethnographic interviews, purposive sampling, inductive data analysis, and grounded theory building.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
1
9.5
About the study of different groups of people and their cultures
Relating to the study of people and their cultures
About studying different groups of people and how they live
How Detailed
298
4.6
- Specialized
5
7.9
353
3.7
- Specialized
5
4.2
94
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
ethnographic = ethnography (semi-transparent) = ethno + graph + ic
The adjective is a standard relational derivation from the specialized noun 'ethnography', but the learned academic base makes the meaning less immediately obvious to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Ethnographic comes from the Greek roots ethnos 'people' and graph 'to write' or 'record', the same ethno- you find in ethnic and the same graph as in photograph. So, ethnographic work is about carefully describing or recording people and their cultures.