ethnographic present

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English

Noun

ethnographic present (plural ethnographic presents)

  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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