Ethnography vs. Ethnology — What's the Difference?

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study.

Ethnology (from the Greek: ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

The branch of anthropology that deals with the description of specific human cultures, using methods such as close observation and interviews.

The branch of anthropology that analyzes and compares human cultures, as in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural anthropology.

A text produced using such methods.

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.

An ethnographic work.

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

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

The branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies