Ethnology is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them.
Adam František Kollár, 1779
Claude Lévi-Strauss
İzmir Ethnography Museum seen from the courtyard
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term sociocultural anthropology includes both cultural and social anthropology traditions.
Edward Burnett Tylor, founder of cultural anthropology
Franz Boas (1858–1942), one of the pioneers of modern anthropology, often called the "Father of American Anthropology"
Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
Ruth Benedict in 1937