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- noun Plural form of
ethnography .
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Examples
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We no longer consign women to special chapters in ethnographies but have enlarged our notion of humanity.
Feminism gives me that oh-so-fresh feeling. « A Bird’s Nest 2006
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I just mean that those books (not including almost all ethnographies) would probably be the only ones that would interest me, unless there's some political philosophy.
intertribal: seven lies multiplied by seven multiplied by seven again intertribal 2010
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So aloof were they that in the numerous Indian ethnographies compiled from 1758 onward chronicling the various Comanche bands there were as many as thirteen, they do not even show up until 1872.10 For this reason they had largely avoided the cholera plagues of 1816 and 1849 that had ravaged western tribes and had destroyed fully half of all Comanches.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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There are museums, libraries and archives all over the country containing Native American artifacts, remains, ethnographies, and other materials that were obtained under false pretenses or outright stolen from these people.
University pays damages to Indian tribe for alleged misuse of DNA - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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In a somewhat disorienting manipulation of categories, Abbott opposes the lyrical to all narrative forms — newly personal ethnographies as well as traditional quantitative studies that tell the stories of personified and determining variables (70-82).
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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Nevertheless, the ethnographies that do exist provide a valuable resource for the comparative aspects of this work.
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But novels and films can accomplish some of the same purposes and so too ethnographies.
How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods 2009
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The anthropologist Victor Turner makes central use of this framework in constructing his ethnographies Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society.
Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009
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The anthropologist Victor Turner makes central use of this framework in constructing his ethnographies Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society.
Acting, deliberating, performing Daniel Little 2009
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The project compiled local histories, oral histories, ethnographies, children's books and other works.
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