Ethnology
[eθ'nɒlədʒɪ]
Definition
(noun.) the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics.
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Definition
(n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
Editor: Rosanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Science of races (treating of the mental as well as of the physical differences of the races of mankind).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man as robbers thieves swindlers dunces lunatics idiots and ethnologists.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- It had no strategic foresight, because it was blankly ignorant of geography and ethnology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Geography, ethnology, psychology, and political history were sealed books to them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We Europeans know very little as yet of the ethnology and pre-history of southern China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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