Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of anthropology that analyzes and compares human cultures, as in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural anthropology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of the races of men and of their character, history, customs, and institutions. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anthropology The branch of
anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics
Etymologies
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Examples
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It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Museum's holdings in Asian ethnology constitute one of the finest such collections in the Western Hemisphere.
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