ethnologist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a scholar who studies and compares peoples, cultures, and social institutions, especially within the field of ethnology

   The ethnologist compared kinship systems described in several field studies.

From ethnology + -ist. Ethnology was formed from Greek ethnos ("people, nation") + -logia ("study, account"). In nineteenth-century writing the field often classified and compared human populations; modern ethnology places greater emphasis on cultures and social organization.

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