ethnography
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++eth·nog·ra·phy /eθˈnɒɡrəfi $ eθˈnɑː-/ noun [uncountable] SAthe scientific description of different races of people 人种志，人种论 —ethnographer noun [countable] —ethnographic /ˌeθnəˈɡræfɪk◂/ adjective —ethnographically /-kli/ adverb
Examples from the Corpus
ethnography• What can ethnography tell us about the big issues?• The ordinary methods of Hellenistic ethnography would have been sufficient.• It is this special knowledge, or gnosis, which hopefully can make the inside ethnography so different and illuminating.• Critics of ethnography stress its unreliability.• Waiting lists can't be seen as bus queues Value of ethnography soc: Only that they're not queues.• He was lightly wounded at Detroit and wrote papers on ethnography, as well as collecting specimens wherever his career sent him.• There is one further feature of the ethnography which must be mentioned before I discuss the general pattern.• A series of individual observation and interview measures will be derived on the basis of this ethnography.eth·nog·ra·phy nounChineseSyllable
description different scientific of people the Corpus races of
ethnography
eth‧nog‧ra‧phy /eθˈnɒɡrəfi $ eθˈnɑː-/
noun [uncountable]
the scientific description of different races of people
—ethnographer noun [countable]
—ethnographic /ˌeθnəˈɡræfɪk◂/ adjective
—ethnographically /-kli/ adverb
eth‧nog‧ra‧phy /eθˈnɒɡrəfi $ eθˈnɑː-/
noun [uncountable]the scientific description of different races of people
—ethnographer noun [countable]
—ethnographic /ˌeθnəˈɡræfɪk◂/ adjective
—ethnographically /-kli/ adverb