Yup'ik

Borrowed from Yup'ik Yup'ik (“real person”), from Proto-Eskimo *iŋuɣpiɣ, from *iŋuɣ (“human, person”).

(ethnology) A member of an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska.


abbandono

(ethnology) a funeral custom wherein the body is left on the ground as food for wild animals and birds


xanthous

The xanthous variety springs up out of every black-haired race.

1841, James Cowles Prichard et al., Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, page 227

[…] the xanthous, or fair class, comprises those who have brown, auburn, yellow, flaxen, or red hair; […]

1842, James Laurie, System of Universal Geography: Founded on the Works of Malte-Brun and Balbi, London: Stevenson & Co., page 106

(archaic, ethnology) Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.


melanic

en-adj

melanic (comparative more melanic, superlative most melanic)

more melanic (comparative)
most melanic (superlative)

The melanic, or black class, includes all individuals or races who have black hair; […]


ergology

en-noun

ergology (countable and uncountable, plural ergologies)

(ethnology) Knowledge originating from the study of the object culture of non-European traditional societies.


polygenism

/pəˈlɪd͡ʒənɪzəm/

2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)

(ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.


Siberian

[saɪˈbɪəɹɪən]


Comanche

de-noun

Comanche m (weak, genitive Comanchen, plural Comanchen, feminine Comanchin)

Comanchen (genitive)
Comanchen (plural)
Comanchin (feminine)
Comanche (nominative singular)
Comanchen (definite nominative plural)
Comanchen (genitive singular)
Comanchen (definite genitive plural)
Comanchen (dative singular)
Comanchen (dative definite plural)
Comanchen (accusative singular)
Comanchen (accusative definite plural)

(ethnology, sciences) Alternative spelling of Komantsche


Skraeling

After Old Norse skrælingi (of disputed etymology), the Norse name for the native inhabitants of Greenland and continental North America (Eastern Canada).

1974, H. F. McGee, Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada, Carleton University Press, page 2,
This time all the staves were being swung anti-sunwise, and the Skraelings were all yelling aloud, so they took red shields and held them out against them.

2005, Jonathan Clements, A Brief History of the Vikings, Constable & Robinson (Robinson), unnumbered page,
The Skraelings were soon back in greater numbers, and openly hostile. The Vikings killed many of them in the ensuing battle, and witnessed a Skraeling chief hurling a captured Viking axe into the lake – purportedly in fear of its magical properties.

2014 [1911, William Heinemann], Arthur G. Chater (translator), Fridtjof Nansen, In Northern Mists, [1911, Nansen, Nord i Tåkeheimen], Cambridge University Press, page 80,
A valuable piece of evidence of the Norsemen having early had intercourse with the Skrælings in Greenland is a little carved walrus, of walrus-ivory, which was found during excavations on the site of a house in Bergen, and which appears to be of Eskimo workmanship.

(historical, ethnology) A member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.


palet

(ethnology) prize in Falles in the form of a standard or pennant


leluja

leluja (nominative singular)
leluje (nominative plural)
lelui (genitive singular)
leluj (genitive plural)
lelui (dative singular)
lelujom (dative plural)
leluję (accusative singular)
leluje (accusative plural)
lelują (instrumental singular)
lelujami (instrumental plural)
lelui (locative singular)
lelujach (locative plural)
lelujo (singular vocative)
leluje (plural vocative)

(ethnology) motive used in folk art in the shape of a lily


Argobba

(ethnology) A member of a Muslim group of traders and merchants, spread out through isolated village networks and towns in the northeast and east of Ethiopia.


acculturare

it-verb

acculturàre (first-person singular present accultùro, first-person singular past historic acculturài, past participle acculturàto, auxiliary avére)

acculturàre (canonical)
accultùro (first-person present singular)
acculturài (first-person historic past singular)
acculturàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
acculturàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
acculturàndo (gerund)
acculturànte (participle present)
acculturàto (participle past)
accultùro (first-person indicative present singular)
accultùri (indicative present second-person singular)
accultùra (indicative present singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
acculturàte (indicative plural present second-person)
accultùrano (indicative plural present third-person)
acculturàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
acculturàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
acculturàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
acculturavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
acculturavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
acculturàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
acculturài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
acculturàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
acculturò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
acculturàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
acculturàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
acculturàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
acculturerò (first-person future indicative singular)
acculturerài (future indicative second-person singular)
acculturerà (future indicative singular third-person)
acculturerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
accultureréte (future indicative plural second-person)
acculturerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
acculturerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
acculturerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
acculturerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
acculturerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
acculturerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
accultureréste (conditional plural present second-person)
acculturerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
acculturerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
accultùri (first-person present singular subjunctive)
accultùri (present second-person singular subjunctive)
accultùri (present singular subjunctive third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
acculturiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
accultùrino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
acculturàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
acculturàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
acculturàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
acculturàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
acculturàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
acculturàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accultùra (imperative second-person singular)
accultùri (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
acculturàte (imperative plural second-person)
accultùrino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
acculturàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
accultùri (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
acculturiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
acculturàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
accultùrino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

(transitive, sociology, ethnology) to acculturate


sédentariser

sédentariser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
sédentarisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
sédentarisé (participle past)
sédentarise (first-person indicative present singular)
sédentarises (indicative present second-person singular)
sédentarise (indicative present singular third-person)
sédentarisons (first-person indicative plural present)
sédentarisez (indicative plural present second-person)
sédentarisent (indicative plural present third-person)
sédentarisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sédentarisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sédentarisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sédentarisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sédentarisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sédentarisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sédentarisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sédentarisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sédentarisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sédentarisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sédentarisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sédentarisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sédentariserai (first-person future indicative singular)
sédentariseras (future indicative second-person singular)
sédentarisera (future indicative singular third-person)
sédentariserons (first-person future indicative plural)
sédentariserez (future indicative plural second-person)
sédentariseront (future indicative plural third-person)
sédentariserais (conditional first-person singular)
sédentariserais (conditional second-person singular)
sédentariserait (conditional singular third-person)
sédentariserions (conditional first-person plural)
sédentariseriez (conditional plural second-person)
sédentariseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
sédentarise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sédentarises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sédentarise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sédentarisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sédentarisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sédentarisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sédentarisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sédentarisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sédentarisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sédentarisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sédentarise (imperative second-person singular)
sédentarisons (first-person imperative plural)
sédentarisez (imperative plural second-person)

(intransitive, ethnology) to settle (set up as a swelling)


Bajau

Learned borrowing from Indonesian Bajau bajau.

lbor

The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.

1905, United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands, volume 1, page 565

The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.

1969, James W. Gould, The United States and Malaysia, page 30

The Bajau are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.

2011, Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia, page 569

(ethnology) The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.

sea gypsy

member of people in Indonesia and southern Philippines


Bajau

(ethnology) The indigenous people native to the Bajau island (part of the Riau Islands).


evitazione

(ethnology) a kind of ritual taboo wherein personal contact with certain members of a community is forbidden


Beothuk

(ethnology) A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.


Piankeshaw

en-noun

Piankeshaw (plural Piankeshaws or Piankeshaw)

Piankeshaws (plural)
Piankeshaw (plural)

From Miami Pinkwaawilenionki (“place of the ash men”).

der

(ethnology) A member of a Native American group of the Miami who lived apart from the rest of the Miami nation, in an area that now includes western Indiana and Ohio.


Mascouten

(ethnology) A tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, believed to have dwelt on both sides of the Mississippi River adjacent to the present-day Wisconsin-Illinois border after being driven out of Michigan.


moicano

pt-adj

moicano (feminine moicana, masculine plural moicanos, feminine plural moicanas)

moicana (feminine)
moicanos (masculine plural)
moicanas (feminine plural)

(ethnology) Mohican (of or pertaining to the Mohicans)


moicano

pt-noun

moicano m (plural moicanos, feminine moicana, feminine plural moicanas)

moicanos (plural)
moicana (feminine)
moicanas (feminine plural)

(ethnology) Mohican (indigenous people of North America)


dordolec

sq-noun

dordolec m (plural dordolecë, definite dordoleci, definite plural dordolecët)

dordolecë (plural)
dordoleci (definite)
dordolecët (definite plural)

From Macedonian додола (dodola, “rainmaker”) + -ec; variants blended with дожд (dožd, “rain”) and добар (dobar, “good, kind”).

(ethnology) boy wearing fern and hellebore leaves and sprinkled with water in a ceremony to attract rain


toposophy

I hope it is clear by now that such networks of names signify not only the tracing of a mental map, but also the evocation of a sort of chorographic practice which results in the accumulation of immigrant capital or, as I mentioned above, place wisdom (toposophy).

2005, Mauro Peressini, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, The Mediterranean Reconsidered

Using a human ecological perspective, this essay argues for a reappraisal of indigeneity in a European context, drawing on an ethnology based on topography, topology and, fundamentally, toposophy to transcend the binary and trinary analytical confines of a world divided into Self, Other and, more recently also, Third.

2014, Ullrich Kockel, “Towards an Ethnology Beyond Self, Other and Third: Toposophical Explorations”, in Tradicija ir dabartis, volume 9

Toposophy is a perspective, allied to what Tim Ingold calls the dwelling perspective, which treats people as organisms immersed in their lifeworlds, as opposed to what he calls the building perspective, which supposes that “people inhabit a world – of culture or society – to which form and meaning have already been attached.

2016, Rudi Van Etteger, Design Principles and Guidelines: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Design

(ethnology) A branch of ethnology that emphasizes the relationship between people and the place in which they live or from which they come.


allochronism

(ethnology) The viewing of a different culture as if it were allochronic


Inuit Nunangat

Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut [Term?] or Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖓᑦ (inoit nonangat), from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ+ᓄᓇᖓᑦ (inoit+nonangat).

bor+

(ethnology) The collective name of the territories of the Inuit in Canada, including the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, the federal territory of Nunavut, the Nunavik region in northern Quebec, and the Nunatsiavut region in Labrador.


Naukanski

(ethnology) An ethnic group that lives in far eastern Russia.


Wabanaki Confederacy

(anthropology, ethnology) A North American First Nations and Native American confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian nations.


Sahtú

(ethnology) A Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the vicinity of Great Bear Lake.


Koryo-saram

From Korean 고려사람 (goryeosaram), via Russian корё-сара́м (korjó-sarám).

(ethnology) Ethnic Koreans residing in the post-Soviet states.


Siberian Yupik

(ethnology) A member of a Yup'ik people residing along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula.


Inuvialuit

(ethnology) An Inuit people who live in the western Canadian Arctic region.


Bima

Borrowed from Bima bima; derived from imbi (“believe; trust; faith”) + ruma (“God”).

compound

(ethnology) The indigenous people native to Bima region in Sumbawa island, West Nusa Tenggara province.


Kulturraum

de-noun

Kulturraum m (strong, genitive Kulturraumes or Kulturraums, plural Kulturräume)

Kulturraumes (genitive)
Kulturraums (genitive)
Kulturräume (plural)
Kulturraum (nominative singular)
Kulturräume (definite nominative plural)
Kulturraumes (genitive singular)
Kulturraums (genitive singular)
Kulturräume (definite genitive plural)
Kulturraum (dative singular)
Kulturraume (dative singular)
Kulturräumen (dative definite plural)
Kulturraum (accusative singular)
Kulturräume (accusative definite plural)


Kulturgrenze

Kulturgrenze f (genitive Kulturgrenze, plural Kulturgrenzen)

Kulturgrenze (genitive)
Kulturgrenzen (plural)
Kulturgrenze (nominative singular)
Kulturgrenzen (definite nominative plural)
Kulturgrenze (genitive singular)
Kulturgrenzen (definite genitive plural)
Kulturgrenze (dative singular)
Kulturgrenzen (dative definite plural)
Kulturgrenze (accusative singular)
Kulturgrenzen (accusative definite plural)


Eweland

(anthropology, ethnology) The traditional homeland or domains of the Ewe people.