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ethnology

[eth-nol-uh-jee] / ɛθˈnɒl ə dʒi /


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German anthropologist Felix von Luschan, who headed the Africa and Oceania department of Berlin's Royal Museum of Ethnology, was keen to acquire remains from Germany's empire as well as other European colonies.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023

Their findings were published on 13 September 2023 in the Journal of Ethnology.

From Science Daily • Oct. 2, 2023

They are held in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology but are not on public display.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

To gain permission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs agents to enter the reservations, she secured research sponsorship from the Peabody Museum and the federal Bureau of Ethnology.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021

More puzzling, at least to present-day eyes, were the equally vehement objections voiced by professional archaeologists and anthropologists, especially those at the Smithsonian Institution, which had established a Bureau of American Ethnology in 1879.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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