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词汇 ethnography
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Definition of ethnography in English:

ethnography

noun ɛθˈnɒɡrəfiɛθˈnɑɡrəfi
mass noun
  • The scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences.

    人种志;民族志

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First of all, let's not confuse ethnography with anthropology.
    • It's a clever way to get at the topic, a kind of ethnography of teenage culture that doesn't feel like a documentary.
    • Integrating more of her ethnography would have added depth to her analysis.
    • This book is an important contribution to Melanesian ethnography and anthropology.
    • Franks was one of the founders of the scientific study of ethnography and increased the Museum's collections in that area exponentially.
    • The ethnography of the first part of the book, while a contribution in its own right, provides background for the second part.
    • This book represents good solid traditional ethnography.
    • Traditional ethnography assumed that informants knew what was going on in a delimited space.
    • This is especially evident in central Australian ethnography.
    • While I enjoyed the book as ethnography I remained unconvinced at the end by the author's argument.
    • For instance, there is anthropology's trademark practice of ethnography which entails both fieldwork and writing.
    • Her ethnography is the result of more than a decade of fieldwork done in the 1990s in one of Rio's urban shantytown communities.
    • I will leave something so grand as the future of cultural anthropology to itself, and stick with the predicament of ethnography.
    • We have so much yet to learn from anthropology and ethnography, cognitive psychology, and, yes, even graphic art.
    • We cannot avoid thinking about the overlap between being a tourist and doing ethnography.
    • He supported research not only in the natural sciences, but also in anthropology and ethnography.
    • I probably also thought that the drier and more academic my ethnography, the less likely the authorities were to object.
    • The way these stories are laid out adds to the sense of Goldstein's ethnography as a novel.
    • This very interesting paper cogently melds ethnography, history, and social analysis.
    • This suggests that what we really need is a distinct approach to ethnography.

Derivatives

  • ethnographer

  • noun ɛθˈnɒɡrəfəɛθˈnɑɡrəfər
    • Ad agencies are hiring anthropologists and ethnographers to study and film consumers in their natural environments to see what they really eat, drink, and buy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many ethnographers have noted the importance of food and drink for maintaining familiar forms and social networks among immigrant populations.
      • Russian ethnographers have frequently commented that among the Russian peasantry there was generally no fear of death or the dead.
      • He is always at pains to point out that the English terms and categories used by ethnographers do not necessarily reflect adequately the ways Polynesians themselves categorised their world.
      • Unlike many ethnographers of Papua New Guinea societies who worked in Pidgin, Margaret worked in the vernacular.

Definition of ethnography in US English:

ethnography

nouneTHˈnäɡrəfēɛθˈnɑɡrəfi
  • The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He supported research not only in the natural sciences, but also in anthropology and ethnography.
    • We have so much yet to learn from anthropology and ethnography, cognitive psychology, and, yes, even graphic art.
    • First of all, let's not confuse ethnography with anthropology.
    • This very interesting paper cogently melds ethnography, history, and social analysis.
    • The way these stories are laid out adds to the sense of Goldstein's ethnography as a novel.
    • Her ethnography is the result of more than a decade of fieldwork done in the 1990s in one of Rio's urban shantytown communities.
    • It's a clever way to get at the topic, a kind of ethnography of teenage culture that doesn't feel like a documentary.
    • This book represents good solid traditional ethnography.
    • I probably also thought that the drier and more academic my ethnography, the less likely the authorities were to object.
    • Traditional ethnography assumed that informants knew what was going on in a delimited space.
    • Integrating more of her ethnography would have added depth to her analysis.
    • This book is an important contribution to Melanesian ethnography and anthropology.
    • The ethnography of the first part of the book, while a contribution in its own right, provides background for the second part.
    • For instance, there is anthropology's trademark practice of ethnography which entails both fieldwork and writing.
    • While I enjoyed the book as ethnography I remained unconvinced at the end by the author's argument.
    • This is especially evident in central Australian ethnography.
    • We cannot avoid thinking about the overlap between being a tourist and doing ethnography.
    • I will leave something so grand as the future of cultural anthropology to itself, and stick with the predicament of ethnography.
    • This suggests that what we really need is a distinct approach to ethnography.
    • Franks was one of the founders of the scientific study of ethnography and increased the Museum's collections in that area exponentially.
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