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单词 ethography
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ethographyn.

Brit. /iːˈθɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /iˈθɑɡrəfi/, /ɛˈθɑɡrəfi/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Greek ἦθος , -graphy comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek ἦθος character (see ethos n.) + -graphy comb. form, after French éthographie (1787 in the passage translated in quot. 1793) or its model post-classical Latin ethographia (1606 or earlier). Compare ancient Greek ἦθογράϕος, post-classical Latin ethographus (a1515) painter of character, moralist.
Depiction or description of human character, manners, or feelings, especially in respect of morality; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > cultural or social
ethography1788
symbolics1850
agriology1878
social anthropology1881
culturology1920
cultural anthropology1938
psychographics1968
garbology1972
1788 Analyt. Rev. Sept. 48 Considerations respecting painting in general,..Ethography, or moral painting, and the choice of subjects in the Grecian pictures.
1793 tr. C. de Pauw Philos. Diss. Greeks II. vii. ii. 53 The chief merit..of Polygnotus, consisted in Ethography [Fr. l'éthographie], or the art of painting manners, characters, and passions.
1848 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 187/2 The archaeologist..must appreciate that fine delineation of character which the ancients called Ethography.
1878 in C. P. Krauth Vocab. Philos. Sci. 657 Ethography, description of the moral characteristics of men; in Ampère, the second branch of ethics.
1927 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 134 209/2 I know nothing of ethography or ethology. But, if the character of a people lead them to industry, to what extent will these traits be affected by an artificially imposed political economy?
2005 L. Terando tr. M. E. V. Perdomo My Life as Columbian Revolutionary Prol. p. xxxiv Memory had one initial demand of me: to stitch together an ethography by describing how people think and work in a group acting against the establishment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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