ethnographical

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The comparison might be extended; for on ethnographical, linguistic and physical grounds, the geographical unit now treated is just as homogeneous in composition as the Dual Monarchy.

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  • The ethnographical section includes sections on peoples from around the world including Inuit tribes, Pueblo Indians, —  The St. Petersburg Times
  • The comparison might be extended; for on ethnographical, linguistic and physical grounds, the geographical unit now treated is just as homogeneous in composition as the Dual Monarchy. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
  • Every boundary of the ethnographical, linguistic, political, and commercial map--as a little consideration will show--has indeed been traced in the first place by the means of transit, under the compulsion of geographical contours There are evident in Europe four or five or more very distinct racial types, and since the methods and rewards of barbaric warfare and the nature of the chief chattels of barbaric trade have always been diametrically opposed to racial purity, their original separation could only have gone on through such an entire lack of communication as prevented either trade or warfare between the bulk of the differentiating bodies. —  Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
  • It is called a palaeo-ethnographical museum, and consists of a large collection of the implements of all sorts of the people belonging to the pre-historic period, together with a similar gathering of articles used by the uncivilized races of the present day. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
  • [100 In this brief glance at some of the ethnographical, historical, religious, and literary aspects of homosexual passion there is one other phenomenon which may be mentioned. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
 

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