And this is also the reason why an ethnologist confining himself to a small ethnic area is in a better position than the general one.
The testimony of history, and the results of philanthropic experiment, are the data upon which the ethnologist must institute his inquiries, if he would arrive at conclusions instructive to humanity.
But in attempting to divide mankind into such groups, an ethnologistis met by a serious and apparently insurmountable difficulty.
It might therefore be defined by an ethnologist as a population consisting of homogeneous ethnical elements.
This restriction of the marriage relationship is generally known as 'exogamy,' a term first introduced by the Scottish ethnologist and historian, McLennan.
The ethnologist determines the beginnings of ancient civilization by the invention of writing.
Many of the papers presented at the meetings of the Congrès des Américanistes, have been of the very greatest interest to the American ethnologist and to the historian of early Spanish America.
It bears the same relation to the work of the American ethnologist as his Contributions do to that of the historical student.
The ethnologist finds his path strewn with endless difficulties of this nature, and yet he is not discouraged.
The problems which the anthropologist andethnologist attack are indeed of the highest degree of complexity.
To theethnologist the later history of the Bulgarians is of exceptional interest.
Even to keep abreast of the periodical literature devoted to his subject provides ample occupation for the ethnologist and few are those who can now lay claim to such an omniscient title.
Thus lives again a name renowned in antiquity, and another of those links is established between the past and the present, which it is the province of the historical ethnologist to rescue from oblivion.
Just here, before the ethnologist arises to correct me, let it be put on record that the Taos people do not consider themselves Indians.
When the wrong has been done and the tribe reduced to extermination by inches of starvation, some muckraker will rise and write an article about it, or some ethnologist a brochure about an exterminated people.
The ethnologistwould find fruitful opportunities in the country.
Not only the ethnologist and botanist, but the archæologist as well reaps a rich harvest for his labours here.
The ethnologist is, to a certain degree, in the same position; but only to a certain degree.
Now, it is not going too far if we say that, were it not for the conquest of England, the Angles of Germany would have been known to the ethnologist just as the Aviones are, i.
Apparently this leaves matters in an unsatisfactory condition; in a way which allows the ethnologist any amount of assumption he chooses.
This throws the arena of the ethnologist into an earlier period of the world's history than that of the proper historian.
Important as these are, they are not the points which the ethnologist most looks to.
The ethnologist inquires whether the American of New England can be acclimatized to the intertropical influences of Brazil.
Du Chaillu, an accomplished ethnologist and explorer, about the descent of the English from the Scandinavians instead of the Teutons as set forth in Doctor Pickett's book than from me in an introduction to it.
The ethnologist of to-day cannot discover a feature, hardly a trace even, of the language of the conquerors remaining among the present tribes of occupation.
In relation to the futile efforts of Spain in Mexico, the ethnologist Knox exclaims, "Neither climate, nor government, nor external influences ever alter race.
The average ethnologist has been content to label the vast affiliated hordes and tribes of the two Americas "Mongolian.
Every ethnologist agrees that these people are pure Mayans; but the puzzle has been to explain their presence in Mexico, where to-day there are no other pure Mayans.
The ethnologist and the anthropologist who has not studied the prehistoric archaeology of his own country compares the present condition of savages with that of the Europeans with whom they are brought in contact.
Hitherto both the historian and the ethnologist have ascribed their remains to the later Celtæ, the first historical race of Northern Europe, introducing thereby confusion and cumulative error into all reasoning on their data.
The ethnologist has yet to solve the problem as to whether there exist not among these traces of still older tongues, pertaining to races who have left other but no less certain memorials of their former presence.
In all these respects the conclusions of the ethnologist receive not only confirmation but much minute elucidation from archæological research.
During the progress of work in removing the debris a number of articles of interest to the ethnologist were found at various depths and localities.
As the biologist can study life as manifested in the human organism as well as in the amoeba, so the ethnologist might examine and describe the usages of modern America as well as those of the Hopi Indians.
Since, finally, cultural differences of enormous range occur within the same race, and even within very much smaller subdivisions, the ethnologist cannot solve his cultural problems by means of the race factor.
So theethnologist will do well to postulate the principle, Omnis cultura ex cultura.
The public is not very discerning in choosing real Indian designs, but the ethnologist can quickly pick the originals, even though he may never have seen that tribe of Indians before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethnologist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anatomy; anthropology; psychology
