ethnography

English

Etymology

ethno- +‎ -graphy

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɛθˈnɑɡɹəfi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛθˈnɒɡɹəfi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
• Hyphenation: eth‧nog‧ra‧phy

Noun

ethnography (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographies)

1. (anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

   Synonym: descriptive anthropology

   Holonym: anthropology

2. An ethnographic work.

Derived terms

• autoethnography
• cyberethnography
• metaethnography
• paleoethnography

 

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnical
• ethnicity
• ethnographer
• ethnographic
• ethnographical
• ethnographize
• ethnology

 

Translations

branch of anthropology

• Afrikaans: etnografie
• Arabic: عِلْم الإِنْسََان التَطْبِيقِيّ (ʕilm al-ʔinsaān at-taṭbīqiyy)
• Armenian: ազգագրություն (hy) sg (azgagrutʿyun), էթնոգրաֆիա (hy) (ētʿnografia)
• Bashkir: этнография (etnografiya)
• Belarusian: этнагра́фія f (etnahráfija)
• Catalan: etnografia (ca) f
• Crimean Tatar: qavmiyat
• Czech: etnografie f
• Dutch: etnografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: etnografio
• Finnish: etnografia (fi)
• French: ethnographie (fr) f
• Georgian: ეთნოგრაფია (etnograpia)
• German: Ethnographie (de) f, Ethnografie f, Völkerbeschreibung f
• Greek: εθνογραφία (el) f (ethnografía)
• Hindi: मानवजातिविज्ञान m (mānavjātivijñān)
• Hungarian: néprajz (hu), etnográfia (hu)
• Ido: etnografio (io)
• Irish: eitneagrafaíocht f
• Italian: etnografia (it) f
• Japanese: (for an academic field) 民俗誌学 (minzokushigaku), (for the record) 民俗誌 (minzokushi)
• Kazakh: этнография (kk) (étnografiä)
• Khmer: ជាតិពន្ធុវិទ្យា (ciət pŏənthuʼ vɨcciə)
• Kyrgyz: этнография (ky) (etnografiya)
• Latvian: etnogrāfija f
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⵔⴰⵖⵔⴼⵜ (taraɣrft)
• Polish: etnografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: etnografia (pt) f
• Romanian: etnografie (ro) f
• Russian: этногра́фия (ru) f (etnográfija)
• Spanish: etnografía (es) f
• Tagalog: talalahian
• Thai: ชาติพันธุ์วรรณนา (châat-dtì-pan-wan-ná-naa)
• Vietnamese: dân tộc ký
• Yiddish: עטנאָגראַפֿיע f (etnografye)

work

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民族誌／民族志 (zh) (mínzúzhì)

Further reading

• ethnography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ethnography”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ethnography”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.