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anthropology

[an-thruh-pol-uh-jee] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒl ə dʒi /
NOUN
study of humans and their culture
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Once, in anthropology class, my professor lectured on an insular island tribe that cackled whenever someone got hurt.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

And I think you’re going to have to have competitive models to actually get to reform where people who used to have inside history, which is my discipline, English literature, anthropology, sociology, whatever.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

A professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he wrote or edited nearly 50 books and worked on documentaries for PBS, Time-Life and the BBC.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

The research was led by Ariane Burke, a professor of anthropology at Université de Montréal and head of the Hominin Dispersals Research Group in Quebec.

From Science Daily Apr. 28, 2026

Farmer’s survey was his apprenticeship in public health and medicine as well as anthropology.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

They are anthropologies of populism, cautionary tales from history, blueprints for blunting revanchism’s appeal.

From Seattle Times Dec. 21, 2016

The logical result of such a position is a radical moral relativism vis-à-vis various cultural anthropologies.

From New York Times May 29, 2011




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