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Anthropology > Ethnology > Ethnic groups
... > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates > Hominids > Human beings > Ethnology > Ethnic groups
... > Life (Biology) > Organisms > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates > Hominids > Human beings > Ethnology > Ethnic groups

Preferred term

GN495.4Ethnic groups  

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Ethnic identities
  • Ethnic nations (Ethnic groups)
  • Groups, Ethnic
  • Kindred groups (Ethnic groups)
  • Nationalities (Ethnic groups)
  • Peoples (Ethnic groups)

Note

  • Here are entered theoretical works on the concept of groups of people who are bound together by common ties of ancestry and culture. Works on the subjective sense of belonging to an individual ethnic group are entered under [Ethnicity.] Works on the discipline of ethnology, and works on the origin, distribution, and characteristics of the elements of the population of a particular region or country are entered under [Ethnology,] with appropriate local subdivision. General works on racial, religious, ethnic, or other minority groups are entered under [Minorities.]

Example

  • Notes under [Ethnicity; Ethnology; Minorities]

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Notation

  • GN495.4

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/lcsh/sh85045172

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