Meanings
- not comparableRelating to ethnography.
Among anthropologists old ethnographic descriptions and travelbooks have a bad reputation. With the exception of ethnohistorians, anthropologists make little use of these sources for ethnographic research because of their reputed lack of reliability.
1991, Jean Kommers, “Between Structure and Context: Sources, Source Criticism, and Alterity Studies”, in Raymond Corbey, Joep Leerssen, editors, Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., →ISBN, page 109Synonyms: ethnographical
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveRelating to ethnography.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof or relating to ethnography
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*swé
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*swe-dʰh₁-
- Proto-Hellenic*séswōtʰa
- Ancient Greekἔθω (éthō)
- Ancient Greekἔθνος (éthnos)
- Englishethno-
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Ancient Greekγραφή (graphḗ)
- Englishethnography
- Englishethnographic
From ethnography + -ic.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans etnografies
- etnografiesof, or relating to ethnography
Arabic إِثْنُوغْرَافِيّ
- إِثْنُوغْرَافِيّ (ʔiṯnūḡrāfiyy)of, or relating to ethnography
Catalan etnogràfic
- etnogràficof, or relating to ethnography
Danish etnografisk
- etnografiskof, or relating to ethnography
Dutch etnografisch
- etnografischof, or relating to ethnography
Finnish etnografinen
- etnografinenof, or relating to ethnography
French ethnographique
- ethnographiqueof, or relating to ethnography
German ethnographisch
- ethnographischof, or relating to ethnography
Greek εθνογραφικός
- εθνογραφικός (ethnografikós)of, or relating to ethnography
Irish eitneagrafaíoch
- eitneagrafaíochof, or relating to ethnography
Italian etnografico
- etnograficoof, or relating to ethnography
Latvian etnogrāfisks
- etnogrāfisksof, or relating to ethnography
Norwegian Bokmål etnografisk
- etnografiskof, or relating to ethnography
Polish etnograficzny
- etnograficznyof, or relating to ethnography
Portuguese etnográfico
- etnográficoof, or relating to ethnography
Russian этнографи́ческий
- этнографи́ческий (etnografíčeskij)of, or relating to ethnography
Spanish etnográfico
- etnográficoof, or relating to ethnography
Swedish etnografisk
- etnografiskof, or relating to ethnography
Yiddish עטנאָגראַפֿיש
- עטנאָגראַפֿיש (etnografish)of, or relating to ethnography
Cite this entry
ethnographic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnographic
“ethnographic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnographic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ethnographic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ethnographic.
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