{{Short description|Subgroup of an ethnic group}} thumb | right | alt=Citizens of Krobia (Greater Poland) wearing local folk costume. | Citizens of Krobia (Greater Poland) wearing local folk costume. An '''ethnographic group''' or '''ethnocultural group''' is a group that has cultural traits that make it stand out from the larger ethnic group it is a part of.<ref name="CraithJohler2012">{{cite book|author1=Máiréad Nic Craith|author2=Reinhard Johler|author3=Professor Ullrich Kockel|title=Everyday Culture in Europe: Approaches and Methodologies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GVxN8Nfctf4C&pg=PA90|date=28 November 2012|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4094-8780-7|pages=90–91}}</ref> In other words, members of an ethnographic group will also consider themselves to be members of a larger ethnic group, both sharing a collective consciousness with it, and possessing their own distinct one.<ref name="CraithJohler2012"/><ref name=":0">Wojciech Janicki, [http://phavi.umcs.pl/at/attachments/2014/0215/130611-02-the-distribution-and-significance-of-tatar-ethnic-group-in-poland.pdf The distribution and significance of Tatar ethnic group in Poland]</ref> Ethnographic groups are presumed to be significantly assimilated with the larger ethnic group they are part of, though they retain distinctive, differentiating characteristics related to cultural values such as speech, religion, costume, or other cultural aspects.<ref name="Mühlfried2014">{{cite book|author=Florian Mühlfried|title=Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cp_8AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA38|date=1 May 2014|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-78238-297-3|page=38}}</ref><ref name="Szczepański1997" />
The concept of an ethnographic group is rarely found in Western works, and has been attributed to late 20th-century ethnographic studies in the countries of the former Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc.<ref name="CraithJohler2012"/><ref name="Mühlfried2014" /> This term has been used for example in works of Bulgarian,<ref name="CraithJohler2012"/> Georgian,<ref name="Mühlfried2014" /> Hungarian<ref name="Borsos2016">{{cite book|author=Balázs Borsos|title=The Regional Structure of Hungarian Folk Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1HJDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA34|year=2016|publisher=Waxmann Verlag GmbH|isbn=978-3-8309-8443-6|page=34}}</ref> and Polish<ref name="Szczepański1997">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=108MAQAAMAAJ|title=Ethnic Minorities & Ethnic Majority: Sociological Studies of Ethnic Relations in Poland|author=Marek S. Szczepański|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego|isbn=978-83-226-0742-8|page=10}}</ref> ethnographers.
Paul R. Magocsi, an American historian specializing in Ukrainian studies, described the concept of an ethnographic group as closely related to that of the ethnic group.<ref name="Magocsi1978">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4klpAAAAMAAJ|title=Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus' 1848-1948|author=Paul R. Magocsi|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1978|isbn=978-0-674-80579-8|page=2}}</ref> Some scholars use the term ethnographic group as a synonym to ethnic group.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=SZCZEPAŃSKI|first=MAREK S.|date=1998|title=Cultural Borderlands in Sociological Percpective (The Case of Upper Silesia)|journal=Polish Sociological Review|issue=121|pages=69–82|jstor=41274675}}</ref><ref name="Wódz1999">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSkyAQAAIAAJ|title=Local power and modern community political life: sociological essays|author=Jacek Wódz|publisher=Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Śląskiego|year=1999|page=88|isbn=9788322608500}}</ref> The concept of the ethnographic group as distinct from ethnic group has been rejected by some scholars;<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLcjAQAAIAAJ|title=Ethnologia Polona|year=1999|page=17}}</ref> and it has been argued that most recent studies do not distinguish between the concepts of ethnographic and ethnic groups.<ref name="Periwal1995">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMLJjObbt8gC&pg=PA112|title=Notions of Nationalism|author=Sukumar Periwal|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-1-85866-022-6|page=112}}</ref>
An example of an ethnographic group division would be dividing the Subcarpathian Rus Rusyns ethnic group into Lemkos, Boikian and Hutsul ethnographic groups.<ref name="Magocsi1978" /> Other groups that have been described by some scholars as ethnographic groups include Pomaks in Bulgaria,<ref name="CraithJohler2012" /> Lipka Tatars in Poland,<ref name=":0" /> Adjarians and Khevsurians in Georgia,<ref name="Mühlfried2014" /> Bavarians in Germany and Feylis in Iraq and Iran.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Salah |first=Sinaa |title=The Feyli Kurds in Iraq: A Geopolitical Crisis with Complex Identity Consequences |url=https://cfri-irak.com/en/article/the-feyli-kurds-in-iraq-a-geopolitical-crisis-with-complex-identity-consequences-2023-12-01 |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=cfri-irak.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2.15.9. Fayli Kurds |url=https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-iraq-2021/2159-fayli-kurds |access-date=2024-07-11 |website=European Union Agency for Asylum |language=en |archive-date=2025-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250427210621/https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-iraq-2021/2159-fayli-kurds |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== * Ethnography * Subculture
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
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