A person who is excessively obsessed with ethnic identity, ethnology, or ethnic matters; someone with an extreme ethnic preoccupation.
From ethno- (Greek ethnos) + -maniac (from Greek mania, 'madness, excessive enthusiasm'). This is a rarely used critical or mocking term from the 19th-20th centuries.
This word is largely archaic and occasionally offensive—it shows how academia and society labeled people who became deeply interested in ethnology, sometimes dismissing genuine scholarship as 'obsessive.'
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