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[?].