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ETHNOGRAPHY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

descriptive anthropology; ethnography

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ethnography" is a kind of...):

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Derivation:

ethnographer (an anthropologist who does ethnography)

ethnographical (of or relating to ethnography)

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