Crossword clues for ethnology
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ethnology \Eth*nol"o*gy\n. [Gr. ? nation + -logy.] The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of the characteristics, history, and customs of the races of mankind," 1832, from ethno- + -logy, perhaps modeled on French or German. Related: Ethnologist; ethnological.\n\nEthnology is a very modern science, even later than Geology, and as yet hardly known in America, although much cultivated latterly in Germany and France, being considered an indispensable auxiliary to history and geography.
["Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge," Philadelphia, summer 1832]
Wiktionary
n. (context anthropology English) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.
WordNet
n. the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
Wikipedia
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "nation") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them (cf. cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
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.
Usage examples of "ethnology".
There would thus be a discipline that could cover in a single movement both the dimension of ethnology that relates the human sciences to the positivities in which they are framed and the dimension of psychoanalysis that relates the knowledge of man to the finitude that gives it its foundation.
Some of the men were in German naval uniforms, others, in ordinary seaman's dungarees, but they all had the square dry-featured brutalised faces which Nazi ethnology had set up as the ideal of Nordic superiority.