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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne