Ethnography

[Sarah]

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject thecharacteristics of the human family, developing the details withwhich ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptiveethnology. See Ethnology.

[Lizzy Liz]

a scientific description of the culture of a society by someone who has lived in it, or a book containing this:

[PussyCat]

The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.