anthropology

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Associated with the Games was a curious event known as Anthropology Days organized by William J. McGee and James Sullivan, at that time the leading figures in American anthropology and sports, respectively.

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  1. noun The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans.
  2. noun That part of Christian theology concerning the genesis, nature, and future of humans, especially as contrasted with the nature of God: "changing the church's anthropology to include more positive images of women” (Priscilla Hart).

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  • I have graduate-level training in cultural anthropology, history (both ethnohistory and history of science), archaeology, cognitive science, and linguistics.
  • She balanced her mother's need for support with her own — the need to get her grad degree and, when she graduated next year, to find a job doing serious fieldwork in American anthropology. —  The Empty Chair
  • All this anthropology was a little too much for him. —  Analog December, 1974
  • If you accept that anthropology is anything of a science, this monolithic view of religion is in any event unscientific. —  homunculus
  • Please study the origins of anthropology, then we ewill know the origins of Malaysian before we shout at each other —  Lim Kit Siang
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  1. = French anthropologie, from Greek as if *ἀνθρωπολογία, a speaking of man, from ἂνθρωπολόγος, speaking of man, from ἂνθρωπος, man, + λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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