ethnographynoun [ C or U ]
uk/eθˈnɒɡ.rə.fi/us/eθˈnɑː.ɡrə.fi/a scientific description of the culture of a society by someone who has lived in it, or a book containing this:
One of the aims of ethnography is to contribute to an understanding of the human race.
Malinowski wrote several ethnographies of the Trobriand Islands.
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Lifestyles & their study
- anthropogenic
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- cultural
- culture
- demographer
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- lifestyle
- living
- lot
- meme
- milieu
- suburbia
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernize
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ethnographer
noun [ C ] uk/eθˈnɒɡ.rə.fər/us/eθˈnɑː.ɡrə.fɚ/