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Ethnology is the comparative study of peoples and cultures: you set groups next to each other and ask how their languages, families, beliefs, or tools are alike or different. is usually the close-up writing about one group; ethnology is the wider comparing and theorising.
Ethnology民族學 is the comparative study of peoples and cultures是比較不同民族和文化的學問：you set groups next to each other你把不同群體放在一起比較，and ask how their languages, families, beliefs, or tools are alike or different問他們的語言、家庭制度、信仰或工具哪裡相同、哪裡不同。Ethnography is usually the close-up writing about one groupethnography民族誌通常是針對一個群體的近距離描寫；ethnology is the wider comparing and theorisingethnology則是比較廣泛的比較和理論化。
Older dictionaries said “different of people.” Though actually, that wording is from a time when “race” was used more loosely, and more , than scholars use it now. Today the object of study is cultures and ethnic groups.
Older learner dictionaries said "different races of people."比較舊的學習字典說的是「不同人種」。Though actually不過事實上，that wording is from a time when "race" was used more loosely, and more confidently, than scholars use it now這種說法來自一個時代，當時「race」這個詞用得比現在的學者更隨便、也更理所當然。Today the object of study is cultures and ethnic groups現在研究的對象是文化和族群。
In the United States the label ethnology can sound a little old-fashioned or European; many people just say cultural anthropology. Still a formal, academic word.
In the United States在美國，the label ethnology can sound a little old-fashioned or Europeanethnology這個標籤聽起來可能有點老派或歐洲味；many people just say cultural anthropology很多人乾脆說cultural anthropology文化人類學。Still a formal, academic word不管怎樣它仍然是一個正式、學術性的字。
組成From ethno- + -logy. Ethno- from Greek éthnos (people, nation); -logy, study of.
同家族的字
- ethnographyshares ethno-; ethnography is the close-up describing work
- biologyshares -logy, the study of a field
- ethnicshares ethno- from Greek éthnos
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ethnologynoun
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anthropologyhuman-sciencessciencesThe branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.
- This book is the result of fourteen thousand miles in the saddle and four years in the library. It describes the lives of the inhabitants of France – wherever possible, through their own eyes – and the exploration and colonization of their land by foreigners and natives, from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. It follows a roughly chronological route, from the end of the reign of Louis XIV to the outbreak of the First World War, with occasional detours through pre-Roman Gaul and present-day France. Part One describes the populations of France, their languages, beliefs and daily lives, their travels and discoveries, and the other creatures with whom they shared the land. In Part Two, the land is mapped, colonized by rulers and tourists, refashioned politically and physically, and turned into a modern state. The difference between the two parts, broadly speaking, is the difference between ethnology and history: the world that was always the same and the world that was always changing. I have tried to give a sense of the orrery of disparate, concurrent spheres, to show a land in which mule trains coincided with railway trains, and where witches and explorers were still gainfully employed when Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。