ethnography Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
    descriptive anthropology.

WordNet

Eth*nog"ra*phy noun
Etymology
Gr. nation + -graphy: cf. F. ethnographie.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913