Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "habit, custom, convention")'s the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity. Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cu… (More on Ethnologist)