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ethnology en · NOUN

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Etymology

From ethno- + -logy.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.
   • This book is the result of fourteen thousand miles in the saddle and four years in the library. It describes the lives of the inhabitants of France – wherever possible, through their own eyes – and the exploration and colonization of their land by foreigners and natives, from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. It follows a roughly chronological route, from the end of the reign of Louis XIV to the outbreak of the First World War, with occasional detours through pre-Roman Gaul and present-day France. Part One describes the populations of France, their languages, beliefs and daily lives, their travels and discoveries, and the other creatures with whom they shared the land. In Part Two, the land is mapped, colonized by rulers and tourists, refashioned politically and physically, and turned into a modern state. The difference between the two parts, broadly speaking, is the difference between ethnology and history: the world that was always the same and the world that was always changing. I have tried to give a sense of the orrery of disparate, concurrent spheres, to show a land in which mule trains coincided with railway trains, and where witches and explorers were still gainfully employed when Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris. 2007, Graham Robb, “Itinerary”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, W.W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 16:

Forms

Coordinates

ethnography

Deriveds

ethnologer · paleoethnology · palaeoethnology

Relateds

ethnological · ethnologist · etiology · aetiology · ethnic · ethology · ethnography · etymology · entomology

Translations (47)

ta இன ஒப்பாய்வியல் (branch of anthropology) · fr ethnologie (branch of anthropology) · da etnologi (branch of anthropology) · uk етнологія (branch of anthropology) · ko 민족학 (branch of anthropology) · kn ನಾಡರಿಮೆ (branch of anthropology) · pl etnologia (branch of anthropology) · ca etnologia (branch of anthropology) · br tudoniezh (branch of anthropology) · ar إِتْنُولُوجِيَة (branch of anthropology) · tr budun bilimi (branch of anthropology) · lv etnoloģija (branch of anthropology) · ta இனப்பண்பாட்டுயல் (branch of anthropology) · el εθνολογία (branch of anthropology) · ml ഗോത്രവർഗ്ഗപഠനം (branch of anthropology) · nl volkskunde (branch of anthropology) · kk халықтану (branch of anthropology) · cmn 民族學 /民族学 (branch of anthropology) · pt etnologia (branch of anthropology) · fi etnologia (branch of anthropology) · tl dalublahian (branch of anthropology) · te మానవజాతి శాస్త్రం (branch of anthropology) · de Ethnologie (branch of anthropology) · vi dân tộc học (branch of anthropology) · uk народознавство (branch of anthropology) · ga eitneolaíocht (branch of anthropology) · io etnologio (branch of anthropology) · ja 民族学 (branch of anthropology) · ro etnologie (branch of anthropology) · nl volkenkunde (branch of anthropology) · fi kansatiede (branch of anthropology) · es etnología (branch of anthropology) · hu etnológia (branch of anthropology) · ms etnologi (branch of anthropology) · ru народове́дение (branch of anthropology) · hu összehasonlító/egyetemes néprajz (branch of anthropology) · ka ეთნოლოგია (branch of anthropology) · it etnologia (branch of anthropology) · eo etnologio (branch of anthropology) · de Völkerkunde (branch of anthropology) · th ชาติพันธุ์วิทยา (branch of anthropology) · sv etnologi (branch of anthropology) · ru этноло́гия (branch of anthropology) · cs etnologie (branch of anthropology) · ms kaji rumpun bangsa (branch of anthropology) · id etnologi (branch of anthropology) · kmr binyadnasî (branch of anthropology)