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Chelseaamend

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Compare and contrast ethnography and ethnology.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is glottochronology and what does it contribute to the field of anthropological linguistics?
 
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amandanbreshears

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: Ethnography is descriptive, based on direct fieldwork, and focuses on a single group; ethnology is comparative, uses data collected by other ethnographers, and generalizes across cultures or groups. They are both specialties within Cultural Anthropology and both focus on the phenomenon of culture and cultural adaptation.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: It is a technique of analyzing vocabularies to estimate a time period in which languages diverged from each other. It is part of historical linguistics and helps us understand how language has changed over time.


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