ethnographern.
/ɛθˈnɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /ɛθˈnɑɡrəfər/ Social Sciences.
An expert in or student of ethnography.
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ethnologist1831
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ethnicist1846
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ethnolinguist1946
1825 E. Everett Oration delivered at Plymouth 28 There is no point on which ethnographers are better agreed, than that the Bretons, Welsh, Irish, and Highland Scotch belong to the Celtic race.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) x. 202 An evidence, the ethnographer might perhaps say, of its purely Celtic origin.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind viii. 202 The Ethnographer, who has studied the stone implements of Europe.
1884 A. M. Fairbairn in Congregationalist Apr. 280 The greatest ethnographers, that is, the men who have most extensively studied the customs, the manners, the beliefs of men.
1932 Amer. Anthropologist 34 123 Marivio..can hardly be other than that which is called Maribi and Subtiaban by modern ethnographers.
1973 R. M. Carmack Quichean Civilization iii. 108 He was interested in the history and customs of the Indians, and, like most good ethnographers, he defended them and their way of life.
2008 New Scientist 14 June 46/1 I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists,..sociologists and ethnographers into the field.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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