Aetiology vs Ethnography - What's the difference?
aetiology | ethnography |
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
The study of causes or causation.
(medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.
As nouns the difference between aetiology and ethnography
is that aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something while ethnography is (anthropology) the branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.aetiology
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(wikipedia aetiology)Alternative forms
* * etiology (American)Noun
- I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams .