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Ethnology   /ɛθnˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Ethnology

noun
1.
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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... the minor states, and has presently to be introduced to Uganda, the most powerful state in the ancient but now divided great kingdom of Kittara. I shall have to record a residence of considerable duration at the court there; and, before entering on it, I propose to state my theory of the ethnology of that part of Africa inhabited by the people collectively styled Wahuma—otherwise Gallas or Abyssinians. My theory is founded on the traditions of the several nations, as checked by my own observations of what ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke


Words linked to "Ethnology" :   anthropology, ethnologic, ethnological, ethnologist


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