Ethnology

Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

Overview

Ethnology involves the systematic comparison of different cultures. The process of comparing different cultures to each other is called cross-cultural comparison. The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) recognized ethnology as a scientific discipline in 1843.

History

The term ethnologia (ethnology) is credited to Adam Franz Kollár who used and defined it in his Historiae ivrisqve pvblici Regni Vngariae amoenitates published in Vienna in 1783. Kollár's interest in linguistic and cultural diversity was awakened by the situation in his native multi-lingual Kingdom of Hungary and his roots among its Slovaks, and by the shifts that began to emerge after the gradual retreat of the Ottoman Empire.

Methodology

The data used in the ethnology comes from ethnography, a branch of anthropology that focuses on the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnology can be considered as a branch of anthropology and the process of ethnographic research includes participant observation, interviews, and surveys.

See also

• Anthropology
• Cultural anthropology
• Social anthropology
• Sociocultural anthropology
• Cross-cultural comparison
• British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Adam Franz Kollár
• Kingdom of Hungary
• Ethnography
• Participant observation

External links

• Ethnology at WikiMD

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  Portrait of Anders Fredrik Kollar, 1779
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  Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
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  Izmir Ethnography Museum