ethnographic present

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名詞

(anthropology) The present tense formerly used in ethnographies, even for cultures that no longer existed by the time they were written.

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Many early anthropologists wrote about extinct cultures using the ethnographic present to make their descriptions seem immediate.

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意味（1）

(anthropology) 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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ethnographic presents （ plural ）