Explore: Scottish Ethnological Archive

hotspot of ethnological exhibits. Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire, director of the Jardin d'Acclimatation, decided in 1877 to organize two ethnological exhibits

1862) was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually

Society. First awarded in 1937, they are awarded for books by Scottish authors or about Scotland, and are awarded in several categories. The first Saltire

William Beattie (1793 – 17 March 1875) was a Scottish physician, and poet. His father, James Beattie, was educated as an architect and surveyor, but his

While Crawfurd produced work that was ethnological in nature over a period of half a century, the term "ethnology" had not even been coined when he began

the Scottish Arts Club and vice-president of the Philosophical Institution. From 1922 until his death, he served as the treasurer of the Scottish Anthropological

his photographs of Siam and Cambodia. He became a member of the Royal Ethnological Society of London and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical

(1798–1866) in Journal of the Ethnological Society (1849). Memoir by John Addington Symonds, Journal of the Ethnological Society (1850). Prichard and Symonds

counterpart in Scottish mythology is the bean sìth (sometimes spelled bean-sìdh). Other varieties of aos sí and daoine sìth include the Scottish bean-nighe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe. Groups