Ethnology

Ethnology (from the 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]

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

. Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5 (2 vols), London (1777).

Forster, Johann Georg Adam

. The Elementary Structures of Kinship, (1949), Structural Anthropology (1958)

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

. originally published as Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques in 1925, this classic text on gift economy appears in the English edition as The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies.

Mauss, Marcel

. Akwe-Shavante society (1967), The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States (2003).

Maybury-Lewis, David

. Society Against the State (1974).

Clastres, Pierre

Pop, Mihai and Glauco Sanga. , La Ricerca Folklorica, No. 1, La cultura popolare. Questioni teoriche (April 1980), pp. 89–96.

"Problemi generali dell'etnologia europea"

What is European Ethnology?

Webpage "History of German Anthropology/Ethnology 1945/49-1990

describes the languages and ethnic groups found worldwide, grouped by host nation-state.

Languages

– over 160,000 objects from Pacific, North American, African, Asian ethnographic collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online.

Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History

– Osaka, Japan