anthropology

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anthropologies

1.
(countable, uncountable)The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.
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.
2.
(countable, uncountable)(theology) The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in Christian anthropology.

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From anthropologia, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (human, mankind) + -λογία. anthropo-.