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Definition:(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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He remained unique in contemporary art, without ancestors and without possible descendants. He went to ethnographic sources, to the origins of myths, and he compared and elucidated their intricate enigmas. He reunited the legends of the Far East into a whole, the myths which had been altered by the superstitions of other peoples;
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical…"
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He even launched into an ethnographic digression: the German was vapourish, the French woman licentious, the Italian passionate.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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a contributor to the Journal of Tropical Medicine, and an amateur ethnographer in the Fernando Ortíz mode.
Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
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