Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ethnoscape

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ethnoscape
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A transnational distribution of correlated people.

Example Sentences

"The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous."
"Is an ethnoscape preserved as a tourist attraction still an ethnoscape? In the English case, David Lowenthal suspects it is not: “The heritage landscape is less and less England, more and more 'England-land,' Europe's offshore theme park. […]"
"The divine command to Isaac in 26:3 to sojourn in a land promised as a future possession accents a flexible relation to the ethnoscape, one that serves ethnic identity."

Etymology

From ethno- + -scape.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: ethno
Suffix: scape

Inflected Forms

ethnoscapes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

technoscape financescape mediascape ideoscape

Questions

What does ethnoscape mean?: A transnational distribution of correlated people.
Where does ethnoscape come from?: From ethno- + -scape.

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