Ethnology has been introduced into China in the early twentieth century. Its hundred-year evolution can be divided into three phases: ethnology in the “Old China”; ethnology in the “New China”, and ethnology in the “New Era” (1978–2008). In the phase of “Old China”, relying on introducing the western approaches both in theory and methodology, the Chinese ethnological community offered courses o...

The National Museum of Ethnology was established in 1974 as an Inter-Universfty Research institute. The principal functions of the Museum are: (1) to conduct research and investigatlon In ethnology; (2) to collect, maintain, and exhibit ethnological rnaterials; and (3) through these activities, to deepen the general public's understanding and awareness of the various societies, cultures, and pe...

This bibliography provides selected references to the current English language literature on the ethnology of the Indians of Mexico, Central America, and South America. Leads for further research will be found in Section 1. Publications listed are not available from the Smithsonian Institution. Copies may be seen in larger libraries or obtained through interlibrary loan. Publications on the his...

In attempting to introduce, for the first time, among primitive oriental peoples, a concept of tuberculosis based on scientific truth, the acceptance of which, even in the western world, is little more than fifty years old, it is plainly of interest, and of some importance, to endeavour to ascertain the nature of the beliefs regarding tuberculosis which are actually current among the primitive ...

collected his data from three sources: conversation with natives, their accounts being reproduced in translation, and in particular the services of a remarkable Indian who was able to analyse acutely his own people; the author's personal experience when participating in drug-taking ceremonies; from a secondary source, the Spanish chronicles. The uniqueness of the book lies in Reichel-Dolmatoff'...

The article analyzes interactions between the Baniwa, an indigenous group from the Alto Rio Negro region, and the multi-disciplinary healthcare teams that conduct vaccination there. Approaching from the perspectives of the anthropology of disease, studies of Rio Negro ethnology, and the theory of social representations, the study endeavors to comprehend indigenous interpretations of vaccination...