ethnologic

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We were in a living room that looked like a mix of a youth hostel and an ethnologic museum.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2016

He contributed to the German press and wrote pieces on European geologic and ethnologic subjects for the National Geographic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two postulates concerning primitive society, adopted by various ethnologic students of other countries, have been erroneously applied to the American aborigines; at the same time they have been so widely accepted as to demand consideration.

From The Siouan Indians by McGee, W. J. (William John)

Two partly excavated rooms were seen at this ruin, the work of some earlier visitors who hoped to discover ethnologic or other treasure.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

Having pointed out that this is a law of all things, we proceeded to show deductively that the multiform evolutions of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous—astronomic, geologic, ethnologic, social, &c.,—were explicable as consequences.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert