ethnography
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- noun
- /ɛθˈnɒɡrəfi/
- Specialized
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etnografía
- Through detailed fieldwork, the author provided a rich ethnography of the community's rituals and traditions.
- feminist ethnography
- fieldwork and ethnography
- postmodern ethnography
So I think that an ethnography of wonder is both timely and urgent.
- So I think that an ethnography of wonder is both timely and urgent.
- He talks about them mostly, you know, drawing on the ethnography and stuff of his day.
- Well, it's an inquiry that's done by history, by ethnography.
- So it's going to be a very interesting presentation that combines ethnography, chemistry and pharmacology.
- But I think that if political historians could sort of do it and do ethnography in that kind of way, then we'd all be very well served.
- Nothing, nothing has worked out yet in terms of ethnography.
Examples
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I was writing an ethnography on the social world of performance artists in Paris.
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The researcher conducted an ethnography to understand the everyday lives of indigenous people in the rainforest.
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The book generated more response than any ethnography of the past twenty years.
Academic text (1993) -
So I think that an ethnography of wonder is both timely and urgent.
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So we started out collecting data, engaging in ethnography at TEAKS.
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For me, this makes the art/ethnography debate fade into the distance.
Academic text (1999) -
Indeed, for her, feminist ethnography consists of diverse but continual gendered encounters.
Academic text (1993) -
Newer perspectives on educational research draw from ethnography, linguistics, feminism, aesthetics, and cognitive psychology.
Academic text (1990) -
The most vigorous exposition of this theory appears in Meggitt's (1962) ethnography of Central Desert Aborigines.
Academic text (1992) -
Her doctoral thesis focused on the ethnography of urban youth culture in modern cities.
Synonyms
A study that records in detail how specific groups of people live
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
ethnography = ethno + graphy
The word is built from the combining form 'ethno-' and the suffix '-graphy', but the specialized sense 'scientific study and description of a society' is only partly predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Ethnography comes from the Greek parts ethno meaning 'people' and -graphy meaning 'writing' or 'recording', like photography which records pictures. So ethnography is literally 'writing about people', which is why it means studying and describing how a group lives, often by watching them closely.