Anthropology is the study of human cultures and their history. Study anthropology, social anthropology, an anthropology degree.
Its method is fieldwork — living among the people studied for long enough to learn the language and the ordinary run of the day. The discipline has spent decades reckoning with its own history, having grown up alongside empire and often served it.
1nounanthropologyThe study of human cultures and their history.
“She studied anthropology and spent a year living with a tribe in the Amazon.”
anthropology is a discipline.
From Greek anthropos, a human being, plus -logia, the study of. The word dates from the sixteenth century.
Ancient Greek
ἄνθρωπος — human, mankind
New Latin
anthropologia
English, today
anthropology
From New Latin anthropologia, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (“human, mankind”) + -λογία. by surface analysis, anthropo- + -logy.
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