Ethnology started in the eighteenth century as a systematic attempt to acquire and compare information on those nonEuropean populations who did not possess written records of their history and cultural heritage.

Who invented ethnology?

Historical ethnology. Toward the end of the nineteenth century two schools of ethnology were founded, one by Boas in the United States and the other by Ratzel and Frobenius in Germany. Both schools emphasized the historical processes of diffusion and migration.

When was ethnography developed?

Ethnography, the writing of culture, traces its origins to ancient Greece. Herodotus, who is also known as the father of history, traveled from one culture to another to document the traditions and sociopolitical practices among people of the ancient world during the third century B.