anthropology

Etymology
From, from +. .

Noun

 * 1) The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
 * 2) * 1863, J. Frederick Collingwood (ed), Introduction to Anthropology (from, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, vol I (1959)) pp 8-9:
 * Whilst History endeavours to represent the various phases of civilized life to the fullest extent, the interest of Anthropology rests chiefly upon the general features and the greatest differences in the various forms of human life; for as regards the latter science, these diversities form the most important and characteristic part, and we should have but a one-sided conception of man, if our notions of him were only derived from the history of civilization without taking into consieration the resquisite supplement arising from the study of uncivilized nations, and of man in a primative state.
 * 1)  The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in.
 * Whilst History endeavours to represent the various phases of civilized life to the fullest extent, the interest of Anthropology rests chiefly upon the general features and the greatest differences in the various forms of human life; for as regards the latter science, these diversities form the most important and characteristic part, and we should have but a one-sided conception of man, if our notions of him were only derived from the history of civilization without taking into consieration the resquisite supplement arising from the study of uncivilized nations, and of man in a primative state.
 * 1)  The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in.

Usage notes

 * Anthropology falls under the rubric of primatology, itself a a sub-discipline of zoology.
 * Anthropology is distinguished from other social science disciplines by its emphasis on in-depth examination of context, cross-cultural comparisons, and the importance it places on long-term, experiential immersion in the area of research.

Meronyms

 * See also Thesaurus:anthropology

Translations

 * Afrikaans: antropologie
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, أَنْطْرُوبُولُوجْيَا
 * Aragonese: antropolochía
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: antropoloxía
 * Azerbaijani: antropologiya
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: антрапало́гія
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: антрополо́гия
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 人類學
 * Hokkien: 人類學
 * Mandarin:
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 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: antropoloogia
 * Faroese: mannfrøði
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ანთროპოლოგია
 * German:, , Menschenlehre
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: inuup ineriartorneranik ilisimatusarneq
 * Guaraní: avakuaaty
 * Gujarati: નૃવંશશાસ્ત્ર
 * Hindi:, नृविज्ञान, मानवविज्ञान
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: mannfræði
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: anthropologia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kazakh: антропология
 * Khmer: នរវិទ្យា, មនុស្សសាស្ត្រ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: anthropologia
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: antropologija
 * Macedonian: антропологија
 * Malay:, kaji manusia
 * Malayalam: നരവംശശാസ്ത്രം
 * Maori: mātauranga tikanga tangata
 * Maltese: antropoloġija
 * Mongolian: хүн судлал
 * Navajo: bílaʼashdlaʼii dóó áłʼąą dineʼé naalkaah
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: antropologi
 * Occitan: antropologia
 * Pashto: وګړپوهنه
 * Persian: مردم‌شناسی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Cyrillic: антрополоӂие
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: daonn-eòlas, corp-eòlas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: антрополо̀гија
 * Roman:
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, človekoslovje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: anthropolojia
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: antropolohiya
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: மானிடவியல்
 * Telugu: మానవ శాస్త్రము
 * Thai: มานุษยวิทยา, มานุษยวิทยา
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (人類學)
 * Yiddish: אַנטראָפּאָלאָגיע


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