Ethnology Definition

ĕth-nŏlə-jē
noun
The branch of anthropology that studies comparatively the cultures of contemporary, or recent, societies or language groups.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Ethnology

  • From Ancient Greek ἔθνος (ethnos, “a people, nation”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”)

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Ethnology Sentence Examples

  • Writers on the ethnology of Italy have been hitherto content with the first, namely, the broad distinction.

  • The little that is known concerning the doings of the natives before the appearance of the white man belongs to the domain of ethnology rather than of history.

  • They contain valuable information on the superstitions, ethnology and religion of Tibet.

  • He registered and classified almost every known language, and from these data worked out a system of ethnology.

  • A national institution at Leiden for the study of languages, geography and ethnology of the Dutch Indies has given place to communal institutions of the same nature as Delft and at Leiden, founded in 1864 and 1877.

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