Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

    Ethnographie, Ethnografie, Völkerbeschreibung

    этногра́фияetnográfija

    етнографіяetnohrafija

    the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

  2. (countable, uncountable)An ethnographic work.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Her ethnography of urban youth explored how music shapes identity and belonging.

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  2. The professor encouraged students to write a short ethnography about their own neighborhoods.

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  3. The film served as a visual ethnography, documenting the daily lives of mountain shepherds.

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  4. Ethnography requires deep immersion in a community to understand its culture from within.

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Translations

8 languages
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branch of anthropology:
Deutsch
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branch of anthropology:

Forms

plural: ethnographies
Singularethnography
Pluralethnographies

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
descriptive anthropology
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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