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  • noun Plural form of ethnologist.

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Examples

  • Delarue told seminar participants that it was important for him and his team to examine the detention system like "ethnologists," to become well acquainted with each facility and thus able to uncover hidden practices of torture, such as the facility's personnel

    The Daily Star > News Feed 2010

  • Delarue told seminar participants that it was important for him and his team to examine the detention system like "ethnologists," to become well acquainted with each facility and thus able to uncover hidden practices of torture, such as the facility's personnel

    The Daily Star > News Feed Benjamin Braden 2010

  • "Some so-called ethnologists, naked of the mantle of historical and traditional sciences, misrepresent the African people, ignorant of the fact that it was this grand and dignified Continent where the human race originally came from.

    Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why? 1861

  • She knew most of the people working in the field: missionaries, government officials, social workers, film makers, anthropologists, ethnologists, linguists, popular writers, and Ph.D. students writing yet another thesis on the Huichol.

    The Huichol: personal reminiscences 2009

  • As well as social anthropologists, this society includes ethnologists, linguists and archaeologists.

    Mexico this month - October 2009

  • As well as social anthropologists, this society includes ethnologists, linguists and archaeologists.

    Mexico this month - October 2009

  • She knew most of the people working in the field: missionaries, government officials, social workers, film makers, anthropologists, ethnologists, linguists, popular writers, and Ph.D. students writing yet another thesis on the Huichol.

    The Huichol: personal reminiscences 2009

  • Oh, and yes, those African masks that Picasso so loved came by route of the slave trade, many with their association with female genital mutilation euphemistically parlayed by ethnologists and curators as "coming of age" rituals.

    G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Oh, and yes, those African masks that Picasso so loved came by route of the slave trade, many with their association with female genital mutilation euphemistically parlayed by ethnologists and curators as "coming of age" rituals.

    G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

  • For conservationists and ethnologists it was, and still is, an ecological treasure house for species wiped out elsewhere.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

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