ethnographic present
nounDefinitions
The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer…
The 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.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ethnographic present. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA