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Anthropology   /ˌænθrəpˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Anthropology

noun
1.
The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings.



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"Anthropology" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Minnesota. Department of Meteorology of Minnesota. Department of Northwestern Geography and Chartology. Department of American History. Department of Oriental History. Department of European History. Department of Genealogy and Heraldry. Department of Ethnology and Anthropology. ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau
... anthropology, Dr. Phene read a paper "On Recent Remains of Totemism in Scotland." He defined Totemism as a form of idolatry; a totem was either a living creature or a representation of one, mostly an animal, very seldom a man. It was considered, from reference ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... numerous but a finite number of units, has also to be abandoned in social science. We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examination; our one single still living specimen is all history, all anthropology, and the fluctuating world of men. There is no satisfactory means of dividing it, and nothing else in the real world with which to compare it. We have only the remotest ideas of its "life-cycle" and a few relics of its origin ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
... other words, the Devil. The greater number of these writers, however, obtained the evidence at first hand, and it must therefore be accepted although the statements do not bear the construction put upon them. It is only by a careful comparison with the evidence of anthropology that the facts fall into their proper places and an organized ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray


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