Ethnography


Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ethnography \Eth*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? nation + -graphy: cf. F.
ethnographie.]
That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the
characteristics of the human family, developing the details
with which ethnology as a comparative science deals;
descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology. Ethnologic
Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ethnography
n 1: the branch of anthropology that provides scientific
description of individual human societies [syn:
ethnography, descriptive anthropology]
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