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ETHNOS AND ANTHROPOLOGOS |
 | | "Ethnos" is the study or knowledge of the life-ways of a group of people--it comes from the Greek meaning "Nation," "race" or "people." From it are derived many of the terms central to anthropological method and theory--ethnography, ethnology, ethno-history, ethnocentrism, ethnogeny, ethnicity, ethno-nation, ethno-linguistics, ethno-musicology, ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, ethnomedicine, ethnobotany. |
 | | Ethnos names a basic operative principle in the definition of human identity and difference in a social world--human history has largely been a narrative of the formation, conflict and resolution of human identities and differences between different groups of people across time and space. |
 | | Ethnos also marks off a central principle in the study of the human condition in the world, of its many variations, its 'grand arc' of possibility, and its basic structures of pan-humanness. |
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