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ethnographic present

noun

ethnographic present

noun
1

Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences 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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