Ethnology contributes to the cumulative development of cross-cultural ethnographic data with detailed recordings and analyses of culture and society. It is devoted to communicating what is new and worthy in scholarly approaches to this field with well chosen, carefully edited, instructive articles to readers in diverse fields of the human sciences.

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