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1920 Science 30 Jan. 116/1 The third division, the biological sciences, is divided into physiology, psychology and ‘culturology’.

1939 L. A. White in Amer. Anthropologist 41 571 Application of the viewpoint and principles of the philosophy of evolution is as essential to the solution of many problems in culturology as it is in biology or physics.

1956 F. B. Steiner Taboo i. 17 I am not referring to American culturology.

2000 Jrnl. Anthropol. Res. 56 150 For about a decade, anthropological culturology, in its many guises, fared badly.

1946 Amer. Anthropologist 48 85 It is, in short, a culturological rather than a psychological study.

1949 Antiquity 23 55 What White calls the ‘culturological’ approach.

1978 M. E. Spiro Burmese Supernaturalism p. xv Culturological theorists simply assume, without examining the belief systems of individual actors, that their behaviour is determined by the beliefs of their culture.

2003 I. M. Lewis Ecstatic Relig. (ed. 3) p. xviii The former culturological approach, which is natural to American anthropology, has other disadvantages.

1943 Amer. Anthropologist 45 339 The culturologist knows more about cultural evolution than the biologist, even today, knows about biological evolution.

1957 Contrib. Indian Sociol. 1 50 The culturologist may feel at ease but the sociologist is at a loss.

1991 Amer. Speech 66 88 As a culturologist I myself have found it useful in tracing subtle distinctions in the interpretation of identical items in different cultures.