ethnographic

(adjective)

relating to ethnography

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Examples of ethnographic in the following topics:

  • Bronze Age Rock Carvings

    • While there are some exceptions, scholars agree that the majority of ethnographically recorded rock art was produced during or as a ritual of some form.

  • African Art

    • Due to a lack of written records from this time period, nearly all of our knowledge of Paleolithic human culture and life comes from archaeology and ethnographic comparisons to modern hunter-gatherer cultures.

  • Paleolithic Architecture

    • Due to a lack of written records from this time period, nearly all of our knowledge of Paleolithic human culture and way of life comes from archaeologic and ethnographic comparisons to modern hunter-gatherer cultures.

  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • In 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro.

  • Architecture of Aksun and Lalibela

    • Mary of Zion, built in 1665 and said to contain the Ark of the Covenant; archaeological and ethnographic museums; the Ezana Stone monument documenting the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity; King Bazen's megalith Tomb; Queen of Sheba's Bath, a reservoir; the Ta'akha Maryam and Dungur palaces; the monasteries of Abba Pentalewon and Abba Liqanos; and the Lioness of Gobedra rock art.

  • Stonework on Easter Island

    • Ethnographers and archaeologists also blame diseases carried by European sailors and Peruvian slave raiding of the 1860s for devastating the local peoples.

  • Colonial Australian Art

    • John Lewin and Harriet and Helena Scott were among the first professional natural-history illustrators, while artists such as Augustus Earle focused on ethnographic portraiture of Aboriginal Australians.

  • Paleolithic Cave Paintings

    • An alternative theory, broadly based on ethnographic studies of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, is that the paintings pertained to shamanism.

  • Effects of Colonialism on Nigerian Art

    • In May or June 1907, Picasso experienced a "revelation" while viewing African art at the ethnographic museum at Palais du Trocadéro.