Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to ethnography.

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  • adjective pertaining to ethnography.

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  • adjective relating to ethnography

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  • adjective of or relating to ethnography

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Examples

  • There's a fascinating correlation between Ethnographic Film and Pornographic Film: consider how "natives"/"savages" are often naked in ethnographic films (New Guinea tribesman or Amazonian Indians) -- just as in pornographic film, actors 'bodies are objectified and presented as "other" than subjectively embodied human being.

    And how! Roger Sutton 2007

  • Sometimes the facts of native peoples as eminently described in ethnographic works are simply not enough to imbue our minds with an original, native viewpoint.

    My review ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • J.R. Firth, though sympathetic to his aims, regarded his technical linguistic contribution as consisting of 'sporadic comments immersed and perhaps lost in what is properly called his ethnographic analysis.'

    Under the Mosquito Net Geertz, Clifford 1967

  • The tribe adopted Amazon Conservation Team's methodology for so-called ethnographic mapping, which has been used to chart more than 40 million acres of rain forest.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2009

  • That Van Oort is driven to speak of the "sacred meaning" to be found in the subjects of "ethnographic" crticism to me only suggests that he and his like-minded colleagues are desperate to find profound significance in their study of trivia and detritus.

    Literary Study 2009

  • On the third hand, it's the kind of ethnographic film that probably only specialists want to view more than once, making it easier to admire in the abstract than enjoy in the present.

    GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 6. 2007

  • The film is the last testimonial of an entire way of life, a kind of ethnographic record from a small urban enclave that would soon disappear forever.

    Short Film Week, Day 2: Three Free Cinema shorts Ed Howard 2007

  • Can you tell me what and how you used "ethnographic" research in this sense?

    Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph - Publishing 2.0 2007

  • The film is the last testimonial of an entire way of life, a kind of ethnographic record from a small urban enclave that would soon disappear forever.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Ed Howard 2007

  • My constant disappointment with many attempts is that when I read so called "ethnographic" studies, they are usually interesting and worth reading as long as they do the "scenic fieldwork" concept from Dourish paper, but they completely let me down at the end, since they don't move to what Dourish calls the "analytical" level.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Erik Stolterman 2006

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