ethnology
noun
a branch of anthropology that analyzes cultures, especially in regard to their historical development and the similarities and dissimilarities between them.
ethnologic
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a word derived from
ethnology.
Example Sentences
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We were in a living room that looked like a mix of a youth hostel and an ethnologic museum.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2016
He contributed to the German press and wrote pieces on European geologic and ethnologic subjects for the National Geographic.
From Time Magazine Archive
When, two years ago, I was engaged in making ethnologic collections at Moki for the United States National Museum, some Indians of the Te wa pueblo brought me a quantity of pottery.
From A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Frank Hamilton Cushing
Aside from keen mutual interests of documentary and ethnologic study, we came to know one another humanly by the hard proof of the Frontier.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
It might be well to insert, at this point, a condensation of the Welsh legend, though affecting, especially, the Zuni, a pueblo-dwelling tribe, living to the eastward of the Hopi and with little ethnologic connection.
From Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock
