ethnology

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The revelations of ethnology, which is too youthful a science to reveal a great deal, do not oppose the theory of all matured humanity, to wit, that the animal boy is the same in all ages and in all races, an Ishmaelite, and Ara, an

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  1. noun The science that analyzes and compares human cultures, as in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural anthropology.
  2. noun The branch of anthropology that deals with the origin, distribution, and characteristics of human racial groups.

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  • But before you could arrive at those depths in it which connect with ethnology, history, and geography, you would require a lifetime of study. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • The SS (which included not only battle units but also researchers and scholarly experts) mounted an expedition to Tibet in order to make discoveries in the fields of alpinism and ethnology, and another one to the Arctic, ostensibly for scientific research but also with a view to the possible situation of a German military base. —  WAR OF PERCEPTION
  • Even in England there are straight-haired and curly-haired Romanys, the two indicating not a difference resulting from white admixture, but entirely different original stocks It will, I trust, be admitted, even from these remarks, that Romanology, or that subdivision of ethnology which treats of gypsies, is both practical and curious. —  The Gypsies
  • The ethnology, the physical geography, the climate, the religion, the products of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, so far as they are peculiar to Russia, will some day become reflected into the national art. —  Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
  • Such are some of the universally interesting questions which I attempt to solve by an analysis of the simple faiths of a savage race If in so doing I succeed in investing with a more general interest the fruitful theme of American ethnology, my objects will have been accomplished PHILADELPHIA April, 1868 CONTENTS CHAPTER I GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE RED RACE PAGE Natural religions the unaided attempts of man to find out God, modified by peculiarities of race and nation.--The peculiarities of the red race: 1. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
 

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  1. = French ethnologie = Spanish etnologia = Portuguese ethnologia, from Greek ἔθνος, a people, a nation, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/ɛθˈnɑlədʒi/
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