ethnologyn.

1787 Monthly Rev. 77 App. 544 Ethnology respects man as divided into different communities or nations, occupied in providing for their wants, and in gratifying their tastes.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 132 The history of nations termed ethnology, must be mainly founded on the relations of their languages.

1878 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times (ed. 4) Pref. 9 Ethnology, in fact, is passing at present through a phase from which other Sciences have safely emerged.

1933 Science 19 May 492/2 A movement which..has sought to mould the German people to one pan-Teutonic pattern—in accord with neither the facts nor the conclusions of ethnology.

1975 L. J. Cronbach in M. Golby et al. Curriculum Design iv. xviii. 412 The student..may become better able to comprehend certain types of theory and data, so that he gains more from a subsequent year of study in ethnology.

2011 S. Jobs & G. Mackenthun Embodiments of Cultural Encounters Introd. 16 Nineteenth-century Western colonialism proceeded hand in hand with the development of modern ethnology and anthropology as academic disciplines.

1840 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 10 163/2 Prichard, Dr, J. C.,..on the ethnology of High Asia.

1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. i. 13 The ethnology of the Allophylian races is involved in greater obscurity than that of the tribes which belong to the Indo-European family.

1890 S. P. Langley Rep. Secretary 9 in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. to July, 1889 Mr. W. W. Rockhill..has for several years made himself familiar with the customs of the natives of Thibet, and..will make a special study of the ethnology of the region.

1916 J. London Little Lady of Big House xxvii. 322 What is South America and its ethnology compared to you?

1967 D. Bidney Theoret. Anthropol. (ed. 2) Introd. p. xxxviii He [sc. E. B.Tylor]..attempted to reconstruct the culture history of prehistoric times by comparative analysis of the ethnology of contemporary savages.

2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 137 Geography, climate, ethnology and even politics have all played a part in what food is served in each region.

1851 R. G. Latham Man & his Migrations i. 12 His [sc. Herodotus'] ethnology was of a sufficiently comprehensive character. Manners he noted, and physical appearance he noted, and language he noted.

1915 PMLA 30 97 (note) He was misled by the absurd and fanciful ethnologies in vogue in the 17th and 18th centuries.

1980 Plains Anthropologist 25 161/1 John H. Moore has challenged the validity of earlier ethnologies of the Cheyenne Indians, with respect to their presentation of Cheyenne sociopolitical organization.

2009 A. B. Tillery in J. Locke & E. H. Botting Feminist Interpr. A. de Tocqueville x. 254 Black writers..were quick to defend the humanity of their race against these charges with their own ethnologies.