Definitions
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Ethnography: The scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits, and mutual differences
- Evolutionism: Belief in the theory of evolution.
- Exile: A person who lives away from their native country, either from choice or compulsion.
- Explorer: A person who explores a new or unfamiliar area.
- Missionary: A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
- Monogenesis: The theory that humans are all descended from a single pair of ancestors.
- Pioneer: A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
- Red man: An American Indian (offensive, dated)
- Sauvages*: An old term referring to Indigenous peoples in North America. First used in the late 15th century, it is now outdated and offensive.
- Settler: A person who settles in an area, typically one with no or few previous inhabitants.
- Traveler: A person who is travelling or who often travels.
- Voyage: A long journey involving travel by sea or in space.
- Voyager: A person who makes a voyage; a traveller.
All definitions are from the English Oxford Living Dictionary (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com), unless otherwise indicated.
*Sauvage. (2009). In Multidictionnaire de la langue française (5th
ed.). Montréal, QC: Éditions Québec-Amérique, p. 1460.