ETHNOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethnography mean? 

• ETHNOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun ETHNOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

  Familiarity information: ETHNOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHNOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

descriptive anthropology; ethnography

Hypernyms ("ethnography" is a kind of...):

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Derivation:

ethnographer (an anthropologist who does ethnography)

ethnographical (of or relating to ethnography)