Ethnology

1. What is the study of ethnology?
2. What is ethnology example?
3. What is the correct definition of ethnology?
4. What is difference between ethnography and ethnology?

What is the study of ethnology?

Ethnology is the study of humans as cultural beings. It explores how cultural patterns are constructed, preserved, and changed in various times, places, and social contexts. Peoples' cultural behaviors and expressions are examined through both contemporary analysis and historical reconstruction.

What is ethnology example?

The subject coverage of ethnology includes that of social anthropology and sociology, but it is much broader. For instance, ethnology also includes technology and crafts, plastic and graphic arts, music, dancing, oral literature, dream analysis, religion, world view, ethics, and ethnomedicine.

What is the correct definition of ethnology?

: a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures. broadly : cultural anthropology.

What is difference between ethnography and ethnology?

Ethnography is the in depth study of a particular cultural group, while ethnology is the comparative study of ethnographic data, society and culture. Many of the readings for this course and your own research project have been ethnographic in nature.