Chinese ethnographers often refer to the mountains of southwestern China as a tribal corridor, a crossroads of antique migrations dating back to the Stone Age.
Another good example of how a culture can build flow into its lifestyle is given by the Canadian ethnographer Richard Kuhl, describing one of the Indian tribes of British Columbia.
Goncharov, the armchair ethnographer, in an uncharacteristically dry, " scientific" language, offers a racial typology of the jail's population, based on head shapes, facial features, body sizes, and gradations in skin color.