Ethnology

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ethnology \Eth*nol"o*gy\n. [Gr. ? nation + -logy.]
     The science which treats of the division of mankind into
     races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the
     peculiarities which characterize them. Ethologic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  ethnology
       n : the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of
           humankind into races and with their origins and
           distribution and distinctive characteristics

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  ETHNOLOGY, n.  The science that treats of the various tribes of Man,
  as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and
  ethnologists.