Antedating of "Ethnography"

[Fred Shapiro]

ethnography (OED 1834)

1827 _Foreign Quarterly Review_ Nov. 377 (Periodicals Archive Online)  The
term _Ethnography_, taken in a strict sense, can only be understood to
mean the science which has for its object to classify different nations.

Fred Shapiro


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