ethnology

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“Pools are the most interesting public sphere in the country,” said Valdimar Hafstein, a professor of folklore and ethnology at the University of Iceland who studies Icelandic bathing culture.

From Washington Post

The primary objective of 19th-century “racial science” and ethnology was to stratify the human species into superior and inferior racial categories; such ideas could then be used to justify racial oppression.

From Scientific American

Combe was part of a much larger academic trend involving numerous fields that operated under the names ethnology and natural history; these sought to explain and categorize racial difference and capacity.

From Washington Post

Clearly a racist artifact, the work cannot continue to serve as the visual introduction to an institution that, through its modern department of ethnology, is deeply devoted to the study of human culture.

From New York Times

The study of ethnology was used as a tool for scientists to demarcate social categories in order to justify government-sponsored programs that exploited newly adopted land and its inhabitants.

From Scientific American