How to Use ethnography in a Sentence

ethnography

noun
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  • Someone with more knowledge of South Asian ethnography should weigh in.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2013
  • All students must take a yearlong course called Ethnographies of Work.
    — Alina Tugend, New York Times, 22 June 2016
  • He doesn’t get trapped in shallow ethnography like Scorsese does.
    — Armond White, National Review, 31 Jan. 2020
  • All available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing.
    — Ilana E. Strauss, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2016
  • There’s no ethnography here nor an intrusive attempt to frame these images for those who’d only encounter them on the big screen.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The situation of men like Mike and his friends had not figured prominently in previous ethnographies of the inner city.
    — James Forman Jr., The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2014
  • Most Americans first encountered a Leiris who had little to do with ethnography.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2020
  • At this point most Americans should in theory have a general sense of Afghan ethnography.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2012
  • Using Iñupiat oral histories and ethnographies recorded in the 19th and 20th centuries, Hill now knows that this and other iktuġat were meant to be placed in a boat with the likeness of the whale facing down, toward the ocean.
    — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
  • On entering, you’ll be given a pair of white gloves to wear while browsing—and there’s everything from ethnographies of Swedish design to Ren Hang photobooks on offer.
    — Laura Bannister, Vogue, 17 June 2018
  • This sort of case study belongs to the larger French practice of proximate ethnography, which developed in the nineteen-eighties, when mass tourism had made the world feel smaller and faraway lands less exotic.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Culture Warlords is not truly a history or an ethnography or a memoir or even really a travelogue from racist site to racist site.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The mammoth building exhibits a smorgasbord of natural history and ethnography in a prime corner near Hyde Park.
    — Sophie Davies, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • At the very least, seeing films from all over the world provided a kind of cinematic passport: If the international fare was not always excellent, the ethnography was.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
  • A recent crop of books offers a fascinating and disturbing ethnography of the opaque land of medicine, told by participant-observers wearing lab coats.
    — Meghan O'Rourke, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2014
  • The ethnography is rather rich in documenting the dehumanization of these two populations at the hands of their Bantu neighbors.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2011
  • Trips back to Mexico have taught her about ethnography and indigenous lineage, which has led to a rich exchange of ideas between mother and daughter, as well as bodies of work that keep these creative traditions alive.
    — Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Performing this 'wardrobe ethnography' will help you dive deeper into and understand your clothing.
    — Patricia Karounos, refinery29.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Here the ethnography seems to be clear that though the majority of men in the majority of societies did not practice polygamy, in most cultures polygamy was acceptable, and commonly practiced by high status males.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2010
  • The book is an unconventional introduction to India’s biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography.
    — Lisa Bjorkman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • It is accompanied by a book of probing essays about the role of ethnography and colonialism in shaping how people of African descent were represented in France during the 19th century.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
  • KitchenTown carries out design research, consumer insights and ethnography, and new product concept ideation for start-ups, and gives them access to a product development lab in exchange for a monthly fee.
    — Brian Kateman, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Wise and prudent leaders really might spare us a great deal of trouble. —Mr. Kuper, a specialist on the ethnography of Southern Africa, has written widely on the history of anthropology.
    — Adam Kuper, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
  • My mind went searching unbidden into deep recesses of memory where countless displays of Native American ethnography, seen over years, are stored.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • For those wishing to gain further insight into the rich array of cultures found across Indonesia, the museum offers a massive ethnography map alongside exhibits that highlight daily life across the different islands.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Simply extracting terms and data from an ethnography disregards the holistic nature of the text, which contains specific information that's needed to accurately capture the context of the song.
    — Marcus Woo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Both books have become classics in the field of Chinese ethnography, thanks to their analysis of how world-historical changes like the communist revolution affected everyday rural life.
    — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • In person, Mr. Desmond, 36, mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline, expressing polite frustration with conversations about ethnography that focus more on the researcher than the research.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
  • Bruce Rigsby was an anthropologist who specialized in language and ethnography on two continents, Australia and North America.
    — Wil Phinney, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Thereupon arrives his granddaughter Mira (Johanson) and her boyfriend Beckett (Morse), a graduate student specializing in the ethnography and history of folk music.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023

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