ETHNOGRAPHY

ethnography, descriptive anthropology

(noun) the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ethnography (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographies)

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

Synonyms

• descriptive anthropology

Holonyms

• anthropology

Source: Wiktionary


Eth*nog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy: cf. F. ethnographie.]

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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