ethnology
Let an agent explain ethnology and its relation to ethnography and anthropology, relay its branches, methods and traditions from disciplinary sources with attribution, describe applied forms, and distinguish ethnology from ethnic studies and folklore studies.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain ethnology and its relation to ethnography and anthropology, relay its branches, methods and traditions from disciplinary sources with attribution, describe applied forms, and distinguish ethnology from ethnic studies and folklore studies.
The branch of anthropology that compares and analyses the characteristics of peoples and cultures and the relationships between them, using ethnographic data to study social organisation, material culture, folklore, dance as ethnochoreology, clothing, narrative and belief, with historical branches such as paleoethnology and applied forms such as ethnotourism; ethnology is distinguished from ethnography as the comparative and theoretical stage, and its scope and terminology differ between European and North American traditions.
What it is for: Comparative study of peoples and cultures.
It can be explain the discipline; relay branches and methods; describe traditions; distinguish related fields.
Distinguishing features
Comparative method
Culture focus
European tradition
Museum base
What it looks like
Not a visible object; an academic discipline with museums and journals.
Physical character
term coined: 1830s period - Adriano Balbi and others
How it is recognised
Comparative study of cultures
Ethnochoreology, clothing research, narrative research, paleoethnology, ethnotourism
Ethnography is descriptive fieldwork; cultural anthropology is the wider field; ethnic studies focuses on ethnicity and power
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
builds on - as its data
is housed in - in many countries
In practice
Families and kinds
comparative ethnology of social organisation and material culture
ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology
clothing and costume research
narrative and folklore research
paleoethnology and historical ethnology
European ethnology or Volkskunde
applied ethnology and ethnotourism
Standards and regulation
Research ethics codes of anthropological associations
Museum ethics on collections and repatriation
UNESCO conventions on intangible heritage
Failure modes and hazards
Colonial legacies in collections and concepts
Confusing ethnology with ethnography or ethnic studies
Exploitative ethnotourism, with positions attributed
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What ethnology is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is ethnology, and how does it relate to ethnography, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies? definition
- Is the question about ethnology as a discipline, a subfield or a specific people? boundary
Branches
Branches.
Branches
Branches.
- What are ethnochoreology, clothing research, narrative research and paleoethnology? definition
- Which entry fits the specific branch? action
Method Methods and traditions.
Attribution.
Methods
Methods.
Methods
Methods.
- How do ethnologists use comparison, fieldwork, archives and museum collections? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Traditions
National traditions.
Traditions
Traditions.
- How do European, Russian and North American traditions define ethnology differently, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Apply Applied and public.
Practice.
Museums
Museums and heritage.
Museums
Museums.
- How do ethnographic museums and heritage programmes draw on ethnology, and what repatriation debates exist? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Tourism
Ethnotourism.
Tourism
Tourism.
- What is ethnotourism, and what ethical issues does it raise, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits ethnotourism? action
Context History and critique.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did ethnology develop from nineteenth-century evolutionism through diffusionism to modern approaches? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of anthropology? action
Critique
Critique and decolonisation.
Critique
Critique.
- How have scholars critiqued colonial legacies in ethnology, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits decolonising anthropology? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should ethnochoreology and European ethnology be separate primary entries?
- How should disciplinary sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming subfields and applied forms; should they be split off?