Ethnolysis

Quick meaning: Ethnolysis is a noun meaning (sociology, anthropology) The dissolution or loss of certain characteristics of an ethnic group.

Meaning

(sociology, anthropology) The dissolution or loss of certain characteristics of an ethnic group.

Example Sentences

As regards the tourism function rate, experts generally adopt the principle that if the rate exceeds 100, visitors are dominant and impose their habits and culture on their hosts. In this case we observe the phenomenon of ethnolysis, which is well-known to sociologists.

Taking as a model the theory of “genetic centers” of N. I. Vavilov as adapted by Blanc (as a theory of “cosmolysis” or “ethnolysis”), Laplace constructed a theory of basal polymorphism, according to which Upper Palaeolithic industry was initially unspecialized (a “synthetotype,” innate in the designation borrowed from the paleontologists) and afterwards divided up into specialized complexes.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ethnogenesis, ethnopoiesis, ethnogeny, ethnoculture, ethnoclassification, ethnodifferentialism.

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