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Ethnography - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Ethnography : (noun)
1: the branch of anthropology that provides scientific
description of individual human societies [syn: descriptive
anthropology]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Ethnography : \Eth*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? nation _ -graphy: cf. F.
ethnographie.]
That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the
characteristics of the human family, developing the details
with which ethnology as a comparative science deals;
descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Ethnography : Ethnography: The study of specific human cultures. The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of human cultures. Ethnography sprang from social anthropology and
first focused on small communities that shared culturally specific beliefs and practices.
Ethnography is applicable to health care. For example, ethnography can examine how health care is influenced by the culture of the patient and how ethnocentric beliefs on the part of health
professionals may impede care.
Based on the French ethnographie, from ethno- (from the Greek ethnos, race, people) _ -graphie (from the Greek graphein, to write) = literally, to write (about) a people.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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