Ethnography is the practice in
cultural anthropology of writing a scientific description of an individual human society or of a situation within a society. It is also the name for the resulting text. The comparison of cultural details uncovered through ethnography is the province of
ethnology. Classic ethnographies include
Argonauts of the Western Pacific by
Bronislaw Malinowski and
The Nuer by
E. E. Evans-Pritchard. More commonly read ethnographies include
Nisa by
Marjorie Shostak and
Mama Lola by
Karen McCarthy Brown.