ethnographic

English

Etymology

From ethnography ‎ -ic.

Adjective

ethnographic (not comparable)

1. Relating to ethnography.

   Synonym: ethnographical

   • 1991, Jean Kommers, “Between Structure and Context: Sources, Source Criticism, and Alterity Studies”, in Raymond Corbey, Joep Leerssen, editors, Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., →ISBN, page 109:

     Among anthropologists old ethnographic descriptions and travelbooks have a bad reputation. With the exception of ethnohistorians, anthropologists make little use of these sources for ethnographic research because of their reputed lack of reliability.

Derived terms

• autoethnographic
• cyberethnographic
• ethnographic present
• metaethnographic
• nonethnographic
• paleoethnographic

 

Translations

of, or relating to ethnography

• Afrikaans: etnografies
• Armenian: ազգագրական (hy) (azgagrakan)
• Catalan: etnogràfic
• Danish: etnografisk
• Dutch: etnografisch (nl)
• Finnish: etnografinen (fi)
• French: ethnographique (fr)
• Georgian: ეთნოგრაფიული (etnograpiuli)
• German: ethnographisch
• Greek: εθνογραφικός (el) (ethnografikós)
• Irish: eitneagrafaíoch
• Italian: etnografico (it)
• Kazakh: этнографиялық (étnografiälyq)
• Latvian: etnogrāfisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etnografisk

  Nynorsk: etnografisk

• Polish: etnograficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: etnográfico
• Russian: этнографи́ческий (ru) (etnografíčeskij)
• Spanish: etnográfico (es)
• Swedish: etnografisk
• Yiddish: עטנאָגראַפֿיש (etnografish)