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Ethnohistory

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, ethnohistory means: The study of a people's past by combining historical sources with approaches from anthropology.

In Turkish: etnotarih

How it is used

Often brings oral and material evidence into dialogue with written records; compare their contexts carefully.

Example sentences

  1. The ethnohistory combines oral accounts with maps made by colonial officials.

    Different traditions of knowledge contribute to the reconstruction.

  2. Her ethnohistory questions the categories imposed by an outsider's census.

    Official labels are examined rather than accepted as neutral identities.

Common collocations

  • an ethnohistory of a community
  • ethnohistorical research
  • oral historyThe collection and study of people's spoken memories of the past, usually through recorded interviews, and the recordings that result.
  • censusAn official count of a population carried out by a state, usually recording details such as age, sex, household, occupation or property.

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