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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
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ethnology
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Word definitions for ethnology in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ One of the classic confrontations of nineteenth-century ethnology stemmed from this very circumstance. ▪ The link between cowries and eyes is documented by archaeology as well as ethnology .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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 ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anthropology English) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.