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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 ...
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 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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context anthropology English) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
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.