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Noun: ethnology  eth'nó-lu-jee
  1. The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

Derived forms: ethnologies

See also: ethnologic, ethnologist

Type of: anthropology

Encyclopedia: Ethnology

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