ethnology

Noun

Meaning

The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

development culture knowledge society convention psychology biology ethnography arts civilization habit anthropology humanism ethnological lifestyle

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Antonyms

break with tradition

Hypernyms

anthropology

Related terms

ethnography ethnic ethnological ethnologist

Phrases with the word

local ethnology

Examples

E. Bowen, 1747: 532 The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada (reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included ".. Source: Internet

Hedley also write the General Account of the Atoll of Funafuti, citation The Ethnology of Funafuti citation and The Mollusca of Funafuti. Source: Internet

Hedley also wrote the General Account of the Atoll of Funafuti, citation The Ethnology of Funafuti, citation and The Mollusca of Funafuti. Source: Internet

Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 40: 21-658. Source: Internet

Bureau of American Ethnology, Nineteenth Annual Report, 1900, Part I. pp. 1–576. Source: Internet

Contributions to Canadian Ethnology 1975. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ethnological ethnologically ethnologist ethnolysis ethnomania ethnomaniac