Sentence:  When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered <WSD>griots</WSD>. / Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not <WSD>griots</WSD>. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the <WSD>griot</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.