(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.
Etymology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
(n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one can point out from some languages, living as well as extincted ones, the words for time are derived etymologically from several roots or stems, respectively, which mostly represent different meanings.
(2) The psychodrama aims to the liberation of the human being alienated in his individuality thus giving him back a creative and relational spontaneity owing to the cathartic value of the collective game and drama (taken is its etymological sense).
(3) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(4) And let us hope that we will all enjoy fulfilling the symposium in its entire etymological meaning this evening.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to restore the concept of "handicap" to its original etymologic meaning as a term that identifies a relationship rather than a property concerning only one subject.
(6) The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran Read more Etymology can often mislead.
(7) We didn't want to hide behind 'erotica' – because it's not etymologically accurate for one thing, and I'm very fussy about that kind of stuff, and there's a class element to it.
(8) Etymologically and semantically bound to nursing, little is known about the term nurturance.
(9) Oxford Dictionaries don’t seem to have questioned the etymology of post-truth: “post-” means “after-”, but post-truth is not after-truth, it’s anti-truth.
(10) While there are many holes to pick in this statement, one of the more fundamental is to do with the etymology of the word itself.
(11) The etymology of the word "tic" still remains mysterious.
(12) According to etymology, the word means 'loss of mind'.
(13) It seems preferable to make Brexit feminine,” it said, “since etymologically, the component exit has a corresponding Italian noun, ‘ uscita ’”, which is feminine.
(14) Etymological channels about green and red are studied for many words belonging to the pharmaceutical vocabulary and the authorized dying matters.
(15) Etymologically Sufi, as an Arabic word, means woolen-clad.
(16) "Algeria in Arabic is al-jazâ'ir , which is both very similar to al-jazîra and, etymologically speaking, is in fact simply a variation of the word, which means 'island'.
(17) The listed terms have been used in German veterinary and special veterinary anatomical hand- and textbooks since 1774; etymological remarks are made on some unusual words.
(18) A study of the etymology and pathology of metastasis leads to the conclusion that the essential feature is transportation and not distance.
(19) Both etymologically and in literal meaning the term "oviductal" is overwhelmingly preferable to "oviducal."
(20) Moreover, passion is suffering according to its etymology: until the XVIth century, the word "passionate" meant somebody who suffered physically.