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Anthropology   /ˌænθrəpˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Anthropology

noun
1.
The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings.



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"Anthropology" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand, everything that I know of physiological and pathological science leads me to entertain a very strong conviction that the phenomena ascribed to possession are as purely natural as those which constitute smallpox; everything that I know of anthropology leads me to think that the belief in demons and demoniacal possession is a mere survival of a once universal superstition, and that its persistence, at the present time, is pretty much in the inverse ratio ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley
... anthropology are now engaged not so much in comparing as in discriminating.' {79} Why not refer, then, to the results of their discriminating efforts? 'To treat all animal worship as due to totemism is a mistake.' Do we ...
— Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang


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