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Anthropology   Listen
noun
Anthropology  n.  
1.
The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
2.
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.
3.
That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. See also anthropopathite, anthropopathism, anthropomorphist.





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"Anthropology" Quotes from Famous Books



... holds, is unnecessary work, and, therefore, immoral. I remember, at Melbourne, when he broke in upon Dick and me, a sunburnt wild man from out the Australian bush. It seems he'd been making original researches in anthropology, or folk-lore-ology, or something like that. Dick had known him years before in Paris, and Dick assured him, if he ever drifted back to America, of food and shelter. So here ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London
... dwelt at length upon these arraignments of the careless and biased utterances of supposed scientists, because it is so much the fashion of our times to support certain theories of anthropology by massing the supposed evidences of man's degradation found, even now, in the environments of savage life. Many readers, apparently dazed by the vast accumulation of indiscriminate and heterogeneous statements which they have no time to examine, yield an easy and blind assent, based ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood


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