noun. The branch of anthropology that analyzes and compares human cultures, as in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural anthropology.

noun. The science of the races of men and of their character, history, customs, and institutions. See the extract.

noun. The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

noun. The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

noun. the branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics

"It will be seen, in fine, that in the main Obermüller does not differ from accepted theories in German ethnology, which have long carefully dissevered the Celts from the Teutons, and assigned to each tribe with approximate accuracy its earliest fixed abode in Europe."

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