ethnography
(ɛθˈnɒgrəfɪ)
[mod. f. Gr. ἔθνο-ς nation + -γραϕία writing.]
The scientific description of nations or races of men, with their customs, habits, and points of difference.
| 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 97 The term ethnography (nation-description) is sometimes used by German writers in the sense which we have given to anthropography. 1857 De Quincey China Wks. 1871 XVI. 233 The Englishman..of Chinese ethnography has not a house, except in crevices of rocks. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi vii. (1870) 206 It is in truth a main key to the ethnography of the poems. 1878 Reclus in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 613 s.v., Ethnography embraces the descriptive details, and ethnology the rational exposition, of the human aggregates and organizations. |