ethnography

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From ethno- + -graphy.

"My desire," says Burton, "was to ascertain the limits of Tanganyika Lake, to learn the ethnography of its tribes, and to determine the export of the produce of the interior." — The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Thomas Wright
Fairfield as a fertile writer on ethnography and travel; and Grell equally as a daring explorer, and as a man who had made his mark in the politics and finance of the United States. — The Grell Mystery, Frank Froest

descriptive anthropology

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