Ethnography

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ethnography
       n : the branch of anthropology that provides scientific
           description of individual human societies [syn: {descriptive
           anthropology}]