Étude d'un groupe ethnique.
ETYM Greek ethnos nation + -graphy: cf. French ethnographie.
Study of living cultures, using anthropological techniques like participant observation (where the anthropologist lives in the society being studied) and a reliance on informants. Ethnography has provided much data of use to archeologists as analogies.
The branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies; SYN. descriptive anthropology.