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  • He used the word "ethno masochist" to describe President Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, a woman who married first a Kenyan national and then a man from Indonesia.

    Rashad Robinson: White Supremacists Show Support for MSNBC's Pat Buchanan Rashad Robinson 2011

  • Dr. PEARL: Well, Jim Malusa is a geologist who specializes in ethno-botany in Arizona.

    Book Your Trip: Nancy Pearl Picks Tales For Travel 2010

  • That first great pioneering work had opened up a new field of study to which the Wassons gave the name ethno-mycology (a branch of ethnobotany).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 2 1981

  • In the so-called ethno-bomb, he reported, Israeli scientists were trying to exploit medical advances by identifying distinctive genes carried by some Arabs, and then engineer deadly microorganisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes.

    Daimnation!: Israel's Nuclear Plans 2007

  • At the 1989 World Congress on Evangelism in Manila, Barbara King introduced me to the small but growing field of study called ethno-musicology.

    Navigating the Winds of Change LYNN ANDERSON 1994

  • After having essentially kick-started the idea of ethno-techno with Fifty Gates of Wisdom, Ofra Haza stalled creatively at the start of the 1990s.

    WeLove-music 2009

  • After having essentially kick-started the idea of ethno-techno with Fifty Gates of Wisdom, Ofra Haza stalled creatively at the start of the 1990s.

    WeLove-music 2009

  • Felici-Bach specializes in what's known as ethno-clinical psychology, which focuses on the effects of cultural origins on human development.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • After having essentially kick-started the idea of ethno-techno with Fifty Gates of Wisdom, Ofra Haza stalled creatively at the start of the 1990s.

    WeLove-music 2009

  • After having essentially kick-started the idea of ethno-techno with Fifty Gates of Wisdom, Ofra Haza stalled creatively at the start of the 1990s.

    WeLove-music 2009

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