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That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

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  1. n. That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
  2. n. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies
  3. That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
  4. That branch of knowledge which has for its subject thecharacteristics of the human family, developing the details withwhich ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptiveethnology. See Ethnology.
  5. n:100 n. the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies