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ethnology Noun the branch of anthropology that deals with races and peoples and their relations to one another ethnological adj ethnologist n ethnology the study, often comparative, of the origins and development of the races of mankind. — ethnologist, n. — ethnologic, ethnological, adj. See also: Anthropology
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Linguists and ethnologists often have very technical definitions, but they are all subjective to some degree. Mann, a writer for Science and The Atlantic, wrote 1491 to present to nonspecialist readers discoveries made in recent decades by historians, archeologists, biologists, and ethnologists studying the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Democracy was part of the curatorial process, nourished as it was by collaborations between artists and scientists, ethnologists, sociologists, and philosophers, the fruit of long preparation and regular meetings at Latour's Paris home. |
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ethnology - 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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