ethnological
Americanadjective
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The writing has something in common with Annie Ernaux’s unsparing ethnological studies, except that Ms. Riley’s book consists of a patchwork of narratives whose thematic connections are only subtly suggested.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The scientists said body scans, skull measurements, DNA studies and ethnological characteristics guided their reconstruction.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023
Then “body scans, DNA studies, ethnological characteristics, age, complexion” were used in the facial reconstruction, the university said in a statement.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
And in pencil drawings, the Colombian-Korean artist Gala Porras-Kim documents hundreds of textile fragment left, centuries ago, as temple offerings to the Mayan rain god and now preserved in an ethnological museum at Harvard University.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023
By observing the ethnological as well as the physical peculiarities of the countries he visited, he collected the materials for a very large number of scientific papers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
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