the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
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ethnology::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | anthropology |
| Derivation | ethnologic, ethnological, ethnologist |
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The Museum of Peoples and Cultures is a museum of archaeology and ethnology.
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Ethnomethodology is rather confusing to someone who doesn't know anything about ethnology.
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Ethnology is the science that analyzes human cultures and compares them.
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Craniometry was once intensively practiced in anthropology and ethnology.
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Ethnology deals with ethnic groups'culture, while ethnography deals with groups'repartition.
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Ethnology involves the systematic comparison of different cultures.
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Lubbock was using modern ethnology as he knew it to reconstruct the ways of human ancestors.
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European ethnology is the field of anthropology focusing on Europe.
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Knox's ideas on anthropology and ethnology are now considered racist.
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- The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
- (ethnological) of or relating to ethnology; "ethnological field work"
- Ethnology (from the Greek '', ethnos'' meaning "people, nation, race") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.
- Ethnology is an anthropology journal founded in 1962 by George Peter Murdock, published by the University of Pittsburgh. It specializes in ethnographic articles and cross-cultural studies.
- The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures
- A subset of cultural anthropology concerned with the comparative study of contemporary cultures, with a view to deriving general principles about human society.
- Comparative analysis of cultural patterns to explain differences and similarities among societies.
- The part of anthropology that studies living cultural groups of people. An ethnologist often lives with a group of people in order to study them.
- The scientific, interpretive, comparataive study of other cultures.
