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Social sciences > Anthropology > Ethnology

Preferred term

Ethnology

Definition(s)

Science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations and characteristics; anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures [Merriam Webster Online]

Broader concept(s)

Anthropology

Narrower concept(s)

Related concept(s)

Synonym(s)

Anthropology, cultural
Anthropology, social
Cultural anthropology
History, human, ethnology
Human history, ethnology
Social anthropology

Notation

117637

In other languages

Ethnologie

French

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-PXSNBH6G-F

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