What's the difference between anthropology and ethnology?

Anthropology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
  • (n.) The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
  • (n.) That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
  • (2) The present paper provides a cross-cultural perspective on these problems through description of anthropological and clinical data for a sample (N = 14) of subjects suffering from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
  • (3) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
  • (4) Results are analyzed with regard to current theories in cognitive psychology and anthropology.
  • (5) Although there have been studies of both Dutch colonial policy in the Indies and the development of anthropology in the Netherlands, there has been no systematic examination of the historical relations between them.
  • (6) This review evaluates anatomical, anthropological, and radiographic cephalometric data of the growing nasomaxillary complex, with special regard to their reliability and value for therapy planning.
  • (7) On the basis of findings published in the literature, morphologic changes seen among the author's patients were classified as anthropologic and teratologic dislocations.
  • (8) This paper discusses also the psychological, therapeutic and anthropological implications of recent discoveries in the field.
  • (9) The presence of common Caucasian anthropological features of genetic value in the patients and the lack of Indian mixture in three of the involved families, documented back to 1600, suggest a Caucasian origin of the mutation.
  • (10) A sample of 10 test ribs including 2 control specimens, was judged by 28 volunteers representing several levels of education and experience in the forensic and anthropological sciences.
  • (11) Remarkable differences between the two populations, whose cultural and anthropological differences are well established, were observed.
  • (12) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
  • (13) The anthropological structure of this residence, is characterised by a polar buffer between openess and privacy.
  • (14) The contributions of Physical Anthropology to each is discussed.
  • (15) On the background of this anthropologic situation addiction is understood as internalized foreign determination sustaining a common though antiquated scheme of psychic and social conflict conditioned by outdated patterns of education and socialisation.
  • (16) Concepts from medical anthropology and medical sociology are related to five components of health seeking -- symptom definition, illness-related shifts in role behavior, lay consultation and referral, treatment actions, and adherence.
  • (17) We need regenerative farming, not geoengineering Read more In this new conceptual and political space a term whose use was previously restricted mainly to academic anthropology departments has emerged: “the commons” – that realm of community self-organisation that is mediated neither by the market nor the state.
  • (18) These two males and the environment in which they live are contrasted with the anthropological literature published decades ago describing the unique Indian tribal role played by feminized males.
  • (19) Four methods are (a) examining past research, (b) examining cross-cultural research, (c) asking anthropological questions, and (d) using inductive research techniques to reexamine the problem.
  • (20) Weighing of the issues is therefore possible only on the basis of expert grounding in the latest discoveries in each particular field, and in such cases also on the foundation of anthropological knowledge and awareness of ethical principles ("nil nocere").

Ethnology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan , formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum.
  • (2) Skeletal development is influenced by sex and ethnological factors.
  • (3) The pattern of ischaemic strokes in women aged 15-45 was similar to that observed in Western countries, though our patients differed ethnologically and in dietary habits.
  • (4) We know from many ethnological field research reports that the medicine man employs in his healing procedures - among other things - dream interpretation, (auto-) hynosis, and healing suggestion, advises the sick, uses imaginative techniques, and initiates group catharsis, i.e.
  • (5) Neither the model of Oedipal castration anxiety nor the model of culture-specific pathogenicity, commonly adduced in psychiatric and ethnological literature, explain these phenomena.
  • (6) A survey of the ethnological backgrounds of the individuals reported to date with the Los Angeles variant showed multiple origins that could be explained by an ancient and widespread gene mutation or, more probably, by further biochemical heterogeneity.
  • (7) So, an ethnological haematology is superimposed on the geographical haematology of which it can modify outlines.
  • (8) Certain differences emerged in the geographical distribution of these tumours in the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan-regions which differ both ethnologically and geographically-thus suggesting possible roles played by racial and environmental factors in this respect.
  • (9) The model developed by Arthur Kleinmann asks for universal validity for every form of medicine and leads by its ethnological view on our medicine to interesting conclusions.
  • (10) This dearth of information due to lack of local medical personnel could be alleviated by a combined medical and ethnological study.
  • (11) Yet, its social and demographic implications have not been fully appreciated in ethnological literature, except partially in 1 instance.
  • (12) To this end an examination was made as to the cultural-historical side with the Christian and stoical tradition as well as to the ethnologic-psychological side, especially with the aspect of inferiority and pride taking into consideration the reflection of these problems in the so-called "generation of 1898".
  • (13) The cause of death has been reconstructed, using parallels taken from ethnological and forensic medical research.
  • (14) The use of an ethnological model--the concept of "Guardians of Culture"--allows for the study of the problem from the point of view of a reassessment of self in terms of a cultural role.
  • (15) From the perspective of psychiatric ethnology, the dybbuk is a culture-bound syndrome viewed as a working alliance between society and a selected group of deviants.
  • (16) The apocalyptic threat of AIDS, combined with recent ethnological developments, is promoting an anthropological "rediscovery of sex."
  • (17) This essay is, therefore, an effort to extend the political economy of health into the ethnological domain of community research.
  • (18) An ethnological controversy over the origin and evolution of decorative art is documented for the period 1896-1904 and is used to test the relevance in anthropology of Thomas Kuhn's outline of the structure of scientific revolutions.
  • (19) Surgeons and physicians were valued not only for their professional skills in the field, but for the pursuit of botany, zoology and geology, and in many cases for ethnological studies as well.
  • (20) Of particular significance for ethnology is the finding of two skulls in which the jaws have been replaced before modelling by adapted pigs' mandibles.