...Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures. The term ethnology is credited to Adam Franz Kollár who used and defined it in his Historiae ivrisqve pvblici Regni Vngariae amoenitates published in Vienna in 1783.Zmago Šmitek and Božidar Jezernik, "The anthropological tradition in Slovenia." In: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds. Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. 1995. Kollár's interest in linguistic and cultural diversity was aroused by the situation in his native multi-lingual Kingdom of Hungary and his roots among its Slovaks, and by the shifts that began to emerge after the gradual retreat of the Ottoman Empire in the more distant Balkans.Gheorghiţă Geană, "Discovering the whole of humankind: the genesis of anthropology through the Hegelian looking-glass." In: Han F. Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds. Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology. 1995. Read full entry
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What is an ethnologist and Hi this is for a science
project due on Wednesday can
any of you help with this?
This is for ethnologists and
ethnology
What do they specialise in?
What qualifications do they
need to do this?
Where can you get these
qualifications from (any
aussie uni's?)
What exactly do they do?
Where do they undertake their
work?
Please give a bibliography as
well - I'm in year 9
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It is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity. Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the alleged incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about "human nature", a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers (Hegel, Marx, structuralism, etc.). In some parts of the world ethnology has developed along independent paths of investigation and pedagogical doctrine, with cultural anthropology becoming dominant especially in the United States, and social anthropology in Great Britain. The distinction between the three terms is increasingly blurry. Ethnology has been considered an academic field since the late 18th century especially in Europe and is sometimes conceived of as any comparative study of human groups. |
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Why have ethnologists focused |
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Probably because if they wanted to know about literate peoples they'd pick up a history (or histories) likely written by one or more of its members. They want to write the story that's never been written. |
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What is the difference between I want to be in the field,
studying foreign cultures,
what title would that career
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None really. At its onset, what are now seen as anthropological disciplines were developed simultaneously in different countries by people that either didn't know each other or didn't agree with each other. As a result, though sharing areas of research, different "schools of thought" appeared which agreed or differed from each just as much as you do from other classmates. You might also call this "schools of thought" as "scientific traditions" which means you can trace certain ideas to one source, in spite of the fact that afterwords they could have been accepted by other traditions. So, in broad terms, you might say that American tradition appears under "cultural anthropology"; French tradition under "ethnology"; and British tradition under "social anthropology". |
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