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Ethnographic studies of recent societies are rich in examples of biological parentage taking a back seat to other kinds of family relationships.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

Ethnographic records from other groups around the world suggest these rates are typical for hunter-gatherers.

From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022

Petitjean dexterously shifts from tracing Kahlo’s artistic and biographical trajectory to tracking his father’s progression from an associate at the Ethnographic Museum to a gallery assistant at Galerie Renou et Colle, where Kahlo exhibits.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2020

The items, which included several masks, a wooden idol and a baby basket, had been in the collection of Berlin’s Ethnographic Museum, though they were never exhibited publicly.

From New York Times • May 16, 2018

Already has Balbi, in his Ethnographic Atlas, given us a list of names and coincidences to an extent truly astonishing.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John