Several of her protagonists are anthropologists or ethnologists exploring a world alien to them. Thirty-four experts attended, including archaeologists, historians, geologists, ethnologists, and linguistics. Theories about Scythian and Sumerian origins were supported by many Turanist ethnologists. Several generations of ethnologists were inspired by his pseudo-evolutionary theory of archaic matriarchy. According to Trautmann, Risley believed that ethnologists could benefit from undertaking fieldwork. He taught many French ethnologists, including George Devereux. By the 1880s, his ideas had been "hijacked" by racist ethnologists. He was one of the first non-native participant-observers and ethnologists at Zuni. His objectives were to form psychological explanations using the reports of ethnologists. In 2016, the leading Slovenian ethnologists divided the country into 23 gastronomic regions. He would be one of the two ethnologists on board; the other was Henri Beuchat. The word "Samodeic" has been proposed as an alternative by some ethnologists. Waitz was influential among the British ethnologists. In addressing this question, ethnologists in the 19th century divided into two schools of thought.