Ethnologischen

Ethnologischen is the inflected form of the German adjective ethnologisch, meaning ethnological or related to ethnology. Ethnology is the scholarly study of cultures, peoples, and social structures, often through cross-cultural comparison and fieldwork. In German-language scholarship, ethnologisch describes approaches, methods, or findings that pertain to the comparative study of cultures.

It derives from Greek ethnos (people) and logos (study). As a declined adjective, ethnologischen appears before nouns in various cases, numbers, and genders. Examples include the dative masculine singular dem ethnologischen Ansatz and the dative plural mit den ethnologischen Methoden, illustrating how the form changes with grammar.

In everyday academic writing, you may encounter ethnologischen Studien, ethnologischen Perspektiven, or ethnologischer Methodik, depending on the case and article. The English equivalent is ethnological; in broader discussions ethnology is considered part of anthropology and cultural studies.

See also Ethnologie, Ethnographische Methodik, Anthropologie, Kulturwissenschaft.