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ethnologist:
(the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘j’ sound as in ‘judge’)
- Obayashi Taryo, ethnologist & professor, University of Japan
a person who studies and knows about ethnology
- Dr Hiltrud Cordes, ethnologist, Germany
(ethnology = the scientific study of the different races of man)
- ethnology __ the people of the world
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Ethnography and Ethnology are divisions/branches of a large system of scientific study of human origin called ‘anthropology’!
‘Ethnography’ is the scientific study of a group of people taken singly, having direct contact with those peoples by an ethnographer, and ‘ethnology’ is the scientific study and analyses of the information available from the research compilations of different ethnographers (of the different groups) in different places of the world. In other words, an ethnographer concentrates his research on one or a couple of ethnic groups found in one area or one large zone and, with direct personal approach/contact (some ethnographers are known to have lived with their subjects for months or even years at a time), studies their culture — their way of life, food habits, language, customs, their relationship with other ethnic groups, and their survival techniques; whereas, an ‘ethnologist’ concentrates his study/research on the differences of different ethnic groups found all the world (basing on the studies of different ethnographers), and applies that information in analysing the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language of different ethnic, racial and national divisions of the present world!
These studies are used in multi-cultural and multi-racial countries, especially in the USA and Great Britain. The politicians and educationalists of these multi-cultural/racial counties use this information and analyses when making laws and designing curricula in educational institutions!
The name “Cultural Anthropology” is common in the United States of America and the name “Social Anthropology”, in Great Britain.
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