Ethnography

Ethnography
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}.

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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Synonyms:
(especially as regards manners and customs or external peculiarities)


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