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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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The resulting paper includes 58 authors from multiple fields, including anthropology, biology, and linguistics.

From Science Daily Jun. 20, 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

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

Changes in the dominance hierarchy can fuel more aggression and tension, said Aaron Sandel, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and study co-author.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

To learn a little about what other kinds of civilizations are possible, we can study history and cultural anthropology.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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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