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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The form of the prefix ant- before the aspirate h in words taken from or formed according to the Greek. In words formed in English anti- usually remains unchanged before the aspirate, as in antihypnotic, antihysteric, etc.

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  • I described it to some of my students (I'm TAing our second-year intro to cultural anth, which is about 500 students, of which I have about 90) and they thought it sounded fantastic.

    Comments for Savage Minds 2010

  • I described it to some of my students (I'm TAing our second-year intro to cultural anth, which is about 500 students, of which I have about 90) and they thought it sounded fantastic.

    Comments for Savage Minds 2010

  • Which would be cool too, but if I were going back to school for another BA my first choice would be anth.

    holiday? what’s a holiday? 2008

  • Edwin on Jun 3, 2008 chuck norris thats it anth on Jun 4, 2008

    Rumor: Matthew McConaughey Possibly Captain America - Blasphemy! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • The ability to simultaneously read Vernon Geberth and eat eggplant parmigiana is possibly a sign that I should have pursued that career in forensic anth after all, isn't it?

    how did i know that this would be my fate? stillsostrange 2007

  • All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from michael hintz wrote 1 year 26 weeks ago sounds crowded, only with hunter and not anth deer for them all.

    100 Best Public-Land Hunts: Michigan 2007

  • That would at least be a change of pace in which the white people are referred to as being ape-like. anth major 1:19 pm on February 28, 2009 | # | Reply

    BODY HAIR MAKES YOU AN APE » Sociological Images 2009

  • Bill Bass is the founder and head of the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, a pioneer in forensic anth.

    best of all I won't stop dreaming just because i'm rich and famous. matociquala 2007

  • And while we're at it, can somebody tell those Atkins/"caveman diet" folks that in your typical hunter-gatherer ( "Appropriator," my favorite anth professor would have insisted) society, 90% of the calories are provided by women's labor?

    i was never faithful and i was never one to trust hawkwing_lb 2007

  • Their Tiptree and Best Fantasy annuals are, of course, extremely well done, but when I opened their slipstream anth. and saw reprints of messageboard discussions of the phrase I may have squee-ed a little bit.

    Tachyon's Superluminal Velocity 2007

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