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ethnology
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ethnology /eth·nol·o·gy/ (eth-nol´ah-je) the science dealing with the major cultural groups of humans, their descent, relationship, etc.
ethnology [eth-nol´o-je]
1. the branch of anthropology that deals with the study of the origin and descent of human races and ethnic groups and their distribution and relationships.
2. the science of comparing and analyzing transcultural differences and similarities and developing theoretical postulations and generalizations from the findings.


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See also Frederic Chauvaud, "Les figures du monstre dans la seconde moitie du XIXe sie cle," Ethnologic franqaise 21, 3 (1991): 243-253.
An ethnologic study of growing up with a Finnish background in Sweden.
His enormous contribution to the development of linguistic, historic, and ethnologic studies in Russia and Finland is widely--though, as it turns out, not completely
 
 
 
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