Anthropology
[,ænθrə'pɒlədʒɪ] or ['ænθrə'pɑlədʒi]
Definition
(noun.) the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings.
Editor: Lora--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
(n.) The science of man; -- 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.
Edited by Lancelot
Definition
n. the science of man more especially considered as a social animal: the natural history of man in its widest sense treating of his relation to the brutes his evolution the different races &c.—adj. Anthropolog′ical.—adv. Anthropolog′ically.—n. Anthropol′ogist one versed in anthropology.
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Examples
- For obviously it is to mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, history, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There can be no question that the study of anthropology has considerably changed our views respecting the first appearance of man upon the earth. Plato. The Republic.
- He liked to read books about the primitive man, books of anthropology, and also works of speculative philosophy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now human psychology is recognized as contributing to various branches of anthropology, or the general study of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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