The branch of anthropology that deals with the division of humankind into races and with their origins and distribution and distinctive characteristics.

Roget 372: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.    [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny^†, anthropography^†, anthroposophy^†; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.    human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae [Lat.]; quidam [Lat.].    people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million etc. (commonalty) 876; population etc. (inhabitant) 188.    tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.    cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.    ... show more

Dutch: volkskunde, etnologie, rassenkunde, volkenkunde
Polish: etnologia