Associations to the word «Ethnology»

Wiktionary

ETHNOLOGY, noun. (anthropology) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

Dictionary definition

ETHNOLOGY, noun. The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke