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Ethnic Plant Collection

Ethnic Plant Collection (民族植物园) is the ethnobotanical garden of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Menglun, Yunnan, with four zones of Dai, Hani, and Jinuo medicinal, food, religious, and artistic plants.

Ethnic pornography

Ethnic pornography is pornography organized around performers' race, ethnicity, or nationality, from 1920s race porn stag films to tagged categories on modern platforms; scholarship documents racial stereotypes, fetishization, industry stratification, and debates over harm versus agency.

Ethnic religion

An ethnic religion, also called a tribal religion, is a religious tradition rooted in a particular people or place that does not typically seek converts, such as Shinto.

Ethnic villages of China

Ethnic villages of China are rural settlements preserving the built environment and livelihoods of ethnic minority groups, including World Heritage sites like Xidi and Hongcun.

Ethnicities in Iran

Ethnicities in Iran: Persians, Azeri Turks, Kurds, Lurs, Baluch, Arabs, Turkmen, and smaller groups. No official ethnic census since 1976; estimates vary widely, with religion and language overlapping geography.

Ethnicity

Ethnicity: a social identity marking shared culture, ancestry, and belonging, distinguished from race as cultural rather than biological; from Greek ethnos, theorized by Weber and Barth, and measured differently by national censuses such as the US OMB standards.

Ethno park "Kochevnik"

Ethno park "Kochevnik" (Этнопарк «Кочевник») is an open-air ethnographic park near Khotkovo, Moscow Oblast, founded by Alexey Yezhelev in 2012, showing yurts, a yaranga, and chums with a contact zoo of camels, yaks, and sled dogs.

Ethnobotany

Ethnobotany is the scientific study of relationships between plants and human societies, covering food, medicine, and cultural uses. Coined by Harshberger in 1895, it spans paleoethnobotany, economic botany, conservation, and Indigenous knowledge rights.

Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism is the tendency to judge other cultures by one's own group's standards and regard one's ingroup as central and superior. Coined in use by Sumner's Folkways (1906), it spans ingroup favoritism, measures like GENE and CETSCALE, and links to conflict, threat, and nationalism.

Ethnographic analysis

Ethnographic analysis is a qualitative social-science method that describes a community's culture, practices, and social meanings through prolonged immersion, participant observation, and systematic fieldnote writing.

Ethnographic interview

An ethnographic interview is an open-ended, conversational interview used in the social sciences to understand a group's culture and lived experience from the members' own point of view.

Ethnographic photography

Ethnographic photography is the use of photographs to document, study, and represent cultures, practiced within anthropology since the 1860s and developed by figures like Franz Boas and Alfred Cort Haddon.

Ethnography

Ethnography, also called ethnographic research, is the study and written description of a culture or society through participant-observation, and is the primary method of social and cultural anthropology.

Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World, SIL International's annual catalog of all known living languages since 1951; basis of ISO 639-3 codes, with EGIDS vitality ratings, speaker data, and noted classification criticisms.

Ethnology

Ethnology is the branch of anthropology that compares different cultures and customs. It uses ethnographic data to formulate theories about human social life and cultural differences.

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology, formerly known as comparative musicology and musical ethnology, is the study of music in its social and cultural contexts; Jaap Kunst coined the name in 1950.

Ethnonym

An ethnonym is the proper name of an ethnic group, such as a tribe, folk, or clan, or of a member of that group, like Zulu or Bavarian.

Ethnophilosophy

Ethnophilosophy: the approach, central to African philosophy debates, that treats a people's collective worldviews and oral traditions as philosophy; founded by Tempels's 1945 Bantu Philosophy, critiqued by Hountondji.

Ethnoreligious group

An ethnoreligious group is a community in which ethnic and religious identity are closely linked, membership resting on shared practice rather than personal belief; examples include Jews, Druze, and Sikhs.

Ethnoveterinary medicine

Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) is the community-held, orally transmitted knowledge and plant-based remedies livestock keepers use to prevent and treat animal disease, validated by use rather than laboratory trials.

Ethoate methyl

Ethoate methyl (ethoate-methyl, CAS 116-01-8, Fitios) is an obsolete organophosphate insecticide and acaricide, a cholinesterase inhibitor formerly used against olive fly, fruit flies, aphids, and mites; not approved in the EU since 2002.

Ethofumesate

Ethofumesate (CAS 26225-79-6), a chiral benzofuran herbicide introduced in 1969, HRAC group 15 VLCFA synthesis inhibitor, used pre- and post-emergence in sugar beet, vegetables, ryegrass, and turf against Poa annua and broadleaf weeds; EU renewed 2016/1426.

Ethogram

An ethogram is a standardized catalog of an animal's behaviors, each named, defined, and coded so observers record activity consistently; it underpins ecology and veterinary science.

Ethology

Ethology: the biological, naturalistic study of animal behavior from an evolutionary perspective; founded by Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch, recognized by the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; framework of Tinbergen's four questions and proximate versus ultimate causes.

Ethon Archer

Ethon Emmanuel Archer (born 2002, London) is an English winger/midfielder, 1.88 m, right-footed, on loan at Bromley from Luton Town after Cheltenham Town, Port Vale, Torquay United, and non-league clubs.

Ethopropazine

Ethopropazine (profenamine; Parsidol, Parsitan) is a phenothiazine-derived antimuscarinic drug for Parkinson's disease and drug-induced extrapyramidal symptoms; discontinued in the US, still marketed in Canada.

Ethoprophos

Ethoprophos (ethoprop), O-ethyl S,S-dipropyl phosphorodithioate, CAS 13194-48-4, is an organophosphate soil insecticide-nematicide (Mocap), WHO Class IA extremely hazardous, banned in the EU (2019) and China (2022).

Ethos

Ethos (Turkish: Bir Başkadır) is a Turkish Netflix drama series written and directed by Berkun Oya, first released 12 November 2020 in eight Istanbul-set episodes about Meryem, a religious cleaner, and psychiatrist Peri, exploring Turkey's secular-religious divide; a four-episode second season premiered 12 November 2026.

Ethos (θος)

Ethos (ἦθος) is the Ancient Greek noun for custom and character, root of 'ethics'; paired with ἔθος (habit), central to Aristotle's rhetoric and ethics, and to Heraclitus fragment 119.

Ethos Capital Investments

Ethos Capital Investments is a family of Delaware private equity fund vehicles managed by Ethos Capital LP, a Boston-based adviser founded by Erik Brooks in 2019 and SEC-registered since 2021.