ethnography, descriptive anthropology
(noun) the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ethnography (countable and uncountable, plural ethnographies)
(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.
• descriptive anthropology
• 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
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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