ethnography

English

Etymology

ethno- +‎ -graphy

Noun

ethnography (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographies)

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

Synonyms

• descriptive anthropology

Holonyms

• anthropology

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnical
• ethnicity

• ethnographer
• ethnographic, ethnographical
• ethnology

Derived terms

• autoethnography
• cyberethnography
• metaethnography
• paleoethnography

 

Translations

branch of anthropology

• Arabic: عِلْم الإِنْسََان التَطْبِيقِيّ (ʕilm al-ʔinsaān at-taṭbīqiyy)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: etnografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民族志 (zh) (mínzúzhì)

• Crimean Tatar: qavmiyat
• Czech: etnografie f
• Esperanto: etnografio
• Finnish: etnografia (fi)
• French: ethnographie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ethnographie (de) f, Ethnografie f
• Greek: εθνογραφία (el) f (ethnografía)
• Hindi: मानवजातिविज्ञान m (mānavjātivijñān)
• Hungarian: néprajz (hu)
• Ido: etnografio (io)
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• Irish: eitneagrafaíocht f
• Italian: etnografia (it) f
• Japanese: (for an academic field) 民俗誌学 (minzokushigaku), (for the record) 民俗誌 (minzokushi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• 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)

Further reading

• “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.