Sentence examples for ethnographic records from inspiring English sources

Sevruguin served many audiences and gave each what it desired, whether uninflected ethnographic records, dignified portraits or staged scenes of "Oriental" debauchery.

He thinks that the skulls were likely those of enemies rather than friends or relatives, because in "nine out of 10" societies known from historical or ethnographic records, skulls were removed as trophies for the purpose of humiliating an enemy.

The ethnographic records suggested to archaeoastronomers that this day may have been important to the ancient Mayans.

The sacred part of the island was separated from the remainder of it by a stone wall and ethnographic records indicate that access to the sacred space was restricted to members of the Inca ruling elite.

Rather than analysing the site and seeing which targets appear popular, archaeoastronomers have instead examined the ethnographic records to see what features of the sky were important to the Mayans and then sought archaeological correlates.

In contrast to the largely alignment-oriented statistically led methods of Green archaeoastronomy, Brown archaeoastronomy has been identified as being closer to the history of astronomy or to cultural history, insofar as it draws on historical and ethnographic records to enrich its understanding of early astronomies and their relations to calendars and ritual.

There are two distinct forager-farmer adaptive regimes evidenced in the ethnographic record: an ancillary and surplus cultivation regime.

Much can be explained by bringing together, as Boyer does, the evidence of the ethnographic record and the findings of recent psychology.

Identifying arboriculture and agroforestry in Polynesian Societies has usually relied heavily upon the ethnographic record in the absence of direct archaeological evidence.

In this way, it joins a vigorous twentieth-century ethnographic record to the little Sri Lankan community, which is otherwise regrettably without a significant visual dimension.

He says in an essay in online US magazine Truthout that Nelson's "claim that it's the 'irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world' is wrong – from pretty much every angle".