Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans.
- n. 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).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of man or of mankind. It includes the study of man's agreement with and divergence from other animals; of his physical structure and intellectual nature; of the various tribes of men with reference to their origin, customs, etc.; and of the general physical and mental development of the human race. Anthropology thus includes physiology, psychology, sociology, ethnology, etc., putting under contribution all sciences which have man for their object. By some it has been divided into — zoölogical anthropology, which investigates man's relations to the brute creation; descriptive anthropology, or ethnology, which describes the divisions and groups of mankind; general anthropology, or, as M. Broca calls it, “the biology of the human race.” As a department of systematic theology, anthropology deals with questions relating to the origin, nature, original condition, and fall of man, and especially to the doctrines of sin and free agency.
- n. A treatise on the science of man. Anthropomorphism (which see).
Wiktionary
- n. The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
- n. The science of man, including the study of the ditribution of physical and cultural attributes in relation to man's origin, location, history, and environment; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.
- n. That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. See also anthropopathite, anthropopathism, anthropomorphist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
Etymologies
- From anthropo-, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (anthropos, "man, mankind, human, humanity") + -logy. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She was a distinguished scientist who held three degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago, but she was also, according to those who knew her, a courageous and groundbreaking example to other women.”
“After dissecting yet another male-centered anthropological study, she states The great reassessment happening in anthropology is the realization that the complex of behaviors that seem to mark the emergence of highly intelligent Homo are those activities that have always been associated with women: plant gathering and processing, communal resource acquisition and provisioning — including shellfishing.”
“While in the United States the term anthropology is used to name the whole subject, in Europe the name ethnology is applied.”
“While earning her degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her accreditation in photography, she continued to visit Mexico, falling in love with its dense rainforests, crystal-blue waters, never-ending deserts, and the people that inhabit them - and the food they eat.”
“In these critical passages, it is not clear why he didn't respect what he called anthropology more highly as an empirical study of the mind, given that he himself did it.”
“In terms of its written form, anthropology is also very sympathetic to fiction.”
“As a doctoral student in anthropology (the best major btw), how has your academic life influenced your work?”
“Now a doctoral student in anthropology, she is happy to report that all three goals have become her favorite things to do.”
“This gem should easily entice any reader with an interest or background in anthropology, history or geography.”
Mexican Folk Art from Oaxacan Artist Families by Arden Aibel and Anya Leah Rothstein
“After high school, Evans went to Columbia University, where she took creative writing classes but majored in anthropology before realizing "I hated footnotes.”
The Washington Post: Danielle Evans, an author straddling racial divides
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legios Humans seek to anthropomorphise the actions of animals, which is fundamentally flawed. Dec 26, 2006