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Ethnographic present

Noun
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.NounThe present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written.
"When he said they hunt buffalo, he was using the ethnographic present- there are no buffalo on the reservation."

Synonyms

paleoethnologypalaeoethnologypaleethnologyethnoarcheologyethnoarchaeologyethnohistorypaleoethnographypræsentpast historicanthropalaeoethnologistpalaeohistory
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