ethnographer
ethnographer — noun
- ethnographersingular
- ethnographersplural
1. a researcher who lives with a particular community in order to learn about its c
a researcher who lives with a particular community in order to learn about its culture by observing daily life and taking part in local activities.
Dr. Okonkwo spent two years as an ethnographer living with the Maasai in Tanzania.
ethnographer + living with [community] + [place]
The young ethnographer carefully recorded the village's annual harvest ceremony.
Before writing her book, Mei-Lin worked as an ethnographer in a fishing village in Vietnam.
The museum hired an ethnographer to organise its growing collection of ritual objects.
As an ethnographer, Da Silva interviewed dozens of families about their wedding traditions.
- anthropologist
a wider category; every ethnographer is an anthropologist, but an anthropologist may work in archaeology, linguistics, or biological anthropology without doing fieldwork with living communities.
- field researcher
highlights the method (fieldwork) rather than the specific academic discipline. Can apply to biologists or geographers too.
- cultural anthropologist
nearly interchangeable; 'ethnographer' puts emphasis on the hands-on participant-observation approach.
用法筆記
Primarily found in academic fields such as anthropology and sociology. Broader than 'anthropologist', which can refer to any sub-field of anthropology (archaeology, linguistics, biological anthropology).