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adj. - Of or relating to the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

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  • Sometimes the facts of native peoples as eminently described in ethnographic works are simply not enough to imbue our minds with an original, native viewpoint.
  • The tribe adopted Amazon Conservation Team's methodology for so-called ethnographic mapping, which has been used to chart more than 40 million acres of rain forest.
  • Can you tell me what and how you used "ethnographic" research in this sense?
  • The film is the last testimonial of an entire way of life, a kind of ethnographic record from a small urban enclave that would soon disappear forever.
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