Ethnography examples

Branch of anthropology

Not to be confused with Ethology, Ethnography, Etiology, or Ecology.

For the journal, see Ethnology (journal).

Ethnology (from the Ancient Greek: ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation')^[1] is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).^[2]

Scientific discipline

Further information: Ethnicity

Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures.

The term ethnologia (ethnology) is credited to Adam Franz Kollár (1718–1783) who used and defined it in his Historiae ivrisqve pvblici Regni Vngariae amoenitates published in Vienna in 1783.^[3] as: "the science of nations and peoples, or, that study of learned men