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Example sentences for "ethnographical"

Lexicographically close words:
ethnical; ethnically; ethnographer; ethnographers; ethnographic; ethnographiques; ethnography; ethnologic; ethnological; ethnologically
  1. The true ethnographical boundary would be the Isonzo--not many Yugoslavs live to the west and not many Italians to the east of that river.

  2. He renounced the chronological limitation confining such inquiries to the domain of antiquaries, but he upheld the ethnographical limitation confining them to laws of the same race.

  3. As an explorer Junker is entitled to high rank, his ethnographical observations in the Niam-Niam (Azandeh) country being especially valuable.

  4. The order of his compositions is systematic, not chronological or even ethnographical in the sense of grouping kindred races together.

  5. To judge from some ethnographical analogies (similarity of tattooing, etc.

  6. From the ethnographical point of view there are some differences between the Arawaks of the north and the south.

  7. In most ethnographical works, the extinct Tasmanian[551] people are described side by side with the Australian.

  8. All who have seen the ethnographical maps of the Caucasus must have been struck by the motley appearance which they present; fifty various tribes may in fact be counted in this isthmus, the area of which is less than that of Spain.

  9. The Algonquians and Iroquoians occupy the "ethnographical province" which bears their name and extends over the east of Canada and the north-east of the United States, between the Mississippi and about the 36th degree of N.

  10. If we look at the results of all these migrations and ethnographical mixtures, we have first to notice the stratifications of English society according to rank.

  11. Nearly two thousand pages are occupied with an ethnographical survey of totemism, an invaluable compilation.

  12. Such tides as set towards the Himalaya broke against their farther buttresses, leaving an interesting ethnographical flotsam in the northern valleys; but they never overflowed the Himalayan barrier.

  13. The Instruments connected herewith are objects of Historical & Ethnographical interest hence are brought together authentic Portraits of the “Pipe Family”.

  14. This ethnographical outline Riehl fills up with special and typical descriptions, and then makes it the starting-point for a criticism of the actual political condition of Germany.

  15. In addition to Stack's notes, I received from Assam three sets of replies to ethnographical questions which had been circulated to persons acquainted with the tribe.

  16. It will thus appear that nothing like an ethnographical distribution of tribes has been attempted; and, indeed, these distinctions have long ceased, with the Indians themselves, to be of the slightest significance.

  17. It would certainly be the wisest plan for us to fall back on this for the ethnographical atlas, at least for the choice of the colors; and I believe it could easily be managed.

  18. Petermann or Kiepert would make the ethnographical atlas beautifully.

  19. With this an ethnographical atlas, colored according to the colors of the three families.

  20. In short," said a gentleman, "you are making geo-ethnographical studies.

  21. The artists to whom I showed the costume, later on, pronounced it an ethnographical prize.

  22. I was born an American and curious; not too curious, but just curious enough to be interested in the ethnographical and psychological problems of foreign lands.

  23. Thus other means of resolving the relations of the early races of Man are added to those previously afforded by ethnographical and philological research.

  24. Dasent's Essay on the Ethnographical value of Popular Tales and Legends.

  25. The differences are due, I believe, partly to ethnographical peculiarities and partly to historic conditions.

  26. We are now happily in a position to dispense with such vague ethnographical speculations.

  27. As the limits of their province do not correspond to the ethnographical boundaries, it is not easy to estimate their numbers.

  28. It would be curious to learn the opinion of these poor savages on the proceedings of some learned Teuton, prowling around their graveyards in search of skulls and skeletons for the Berlin or Dresden Ethnographical Museum.

  29. In any case there is no justification for regarding these tardily recorded traditions as ethnographical essays, every word of which has a scientific meaning; and for that they contain far too many obviously mythical features.

  30. Here also different intellectual associations, and intercourse with a variety of nationalities, caused on the whole a greater awakening of the ethnographical sense.

  31. It appears to me that this is attributing to the ancient Icelanders an ethnographical interest which Icelandic literature proves to have been just what they lacked (see above, pp.

  32. It was not my intention to reproduce the ritual of peasant weddings, and I paid little heed to ethnographical considerations.

  33. This nationalistic, ethnographical aesthetic which they persisted in cultivating was not in reality far removed from the spirit which inspired those films one sees of the old Russia of the tsars and boyars.

  34. The collection of the historical society and the ethnographical and art-industrial collections in the Grassi Museum are also of considerable interest.

  35. Ethnographical Notes on the Western Australian Aborigines," in Internationales Archiv fuer Ethnographie, xvi.

  36. From about the same district where the last object came from are made the carved wooden arrows, which are traded by the natives to the islanders of Torres Straits, and which may be found in many of our ethnographical museums.

  37. A large number of examples of this can be culled from the writings of missionaries and others, or seen in large ethnographical collections.

  38. Ambras Museum at Vienna,[26] but analogous figures will be found in numerous books of travel, or in ethnographical journals and treatises.

  39. Daudai is the native name for the contiguous coast of New Guinea, and it forms with the islands one ethnographical province.

  40. One would expect to find more animal representations among these people than appear on objects in our ethnographical collections.

  41. Even museum curators have in the past regarded ethnographical specimens more as "trophies" than as materials for the study of a history of mankind.

  42. It is rarely possible to ascertain the date of manufacture when dealing with ordinary ethnographical specimens in museums; as most of these are quite recent no sequence in time can be made out.

  43. In this, as in all other branches of ethnographical inquiry, we should endeavour to learn all we can about them from their own point of view before it is too late.

  44. So we get that bewildering confusion of ideas which crowd upon us when inspecting a large ethnographical collection or a museum of the decorative arts.

  45. These are the tribes entered on my ethnographical map.

  46. Both the last-mentioned works are interesting from an ethnographical point of view.

  47. The ethnographical map of Hungary does much to explain the political problems of the country.

  48. The various races of Hungary are distributed either in compact ethnographical groups, in larger or smaller colonies surrounded by other nationalities, or--e.

  49. For philological and ethnographical research into the origin and growth of the language none excels Paul Hunfalvy.

  50. The colouring of ordinary ethnographical maps is necessarily somewhat misleading.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethnographical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.