ethnology
pronunciation
How to pronounce ethnology in British English:
UK [eθˈnɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce ethnology in American English:
US [eθˈnɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
Word Origin
- ethnology (n.)
- "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. Ethnology is a very modern science, even later than Geology, and as yet hardly known in America, although much cultivated latterly in Germany and France, being considered an indispensable auxiliary to history and geography. ["Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge," Philadelphia, summer 1832]
Example
- 1. Ethnology has been variously defined in different national traditions .
- 2. Luca bondioli of the national museum of prehistory and ethnology in rome and his colleagues described the results of their study in the journal antiquity .
- 3. After processes are shown , technologies like ethnology analysis , environment observation will be used to get detailed information , do the analysis and other things .
- 4. From philological philosophy to comparative ethnology -- a study of buslaev mythology .
- 5. Cultural changes is an important subject that ethnology and cultural anthropology study .