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The branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
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ethnography
Word definitions for ethnography in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ethnography \Eth*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? nation + -graphy: cf. F. ethnographie.] That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A series of individual observation and interview measures will be derived on the basis of this ethnography . ▪ Critics of ethnography stress its unreliability. ▪ He was lightly wounded at Detroit and wrote papers on ethnography ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anthropology English) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies [syn: descriptive anthropology ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ethnography is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of ethnography . The editors-in-chief are Jan Willem Duyvendak ( University of Amsterdam ), Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam), and Paul Willis ( Keele University ). It was established ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of the description and classification of the races of mankind," 1812, perhaps from German Ethnographie ; see ethno- "race, culture" + -graphy "study." Related: Ethnographer ; ethnographic .
Usage examples of ethnography.
In an essay elsewhere, he identified the subject matter of a history of ideas as: the history of philosophy, of science, of religion and theology, of the arts, of education, of sociology, of language, of folklore and ethnography, of economics and politics, of literature, of societies.
I had behaved like a bull in a china shop, because that which could not be figured out by anthropology and ethnography, with their field research, or by the profoundest philosophical reflection -- meditation on "human nature," and which defied prepositional formulation in both neurophysiology and ethology, and which provided fertile ground for ever-proliferating metaphysics, for psychological abstrusity, and for psychoanalysis classical and linguistic, and God knows what other esoteric study -- I had attempted to cut through, like the Gordian knot, with my proof contained in nine printed pages.