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

One of the aims of ethnography is to contribute to an understanding of the human race. 编写人种志的目的之一是促进对人类的了解。

Malinowski wrote several ethnographies of the Trobriand Islands. 马林诺夫斯基著有数部有关特罗布里恩德岛的人种志著作。