an·thro·pol·o·gy

(ăn′thrə-pŏl′ə-jē)

1. The scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans.

2. That part of Christian theology concerning the genesis, nature, and future of humans, especially as contrasted with the nature of God: "changing the church's anthropology to include more positive images of women" (Priscilla Hart).

an′thro·po·log′i·cal (-pə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl), an′thro·po·log′ic (-ĭk) adj.

an′thro·po·log′i·cal·ly adv.

an′thro·pol′o·gist n.

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Adj.

anthropological - of or concerned with the science of anthropology; "anthropological studies"

Translations

خاص بِعِلْم الإنْسان

antropologický

anthropologisch

anthropologique

embertani

mannfræîilegur

antropologico

antropologisk

антропологический

antropologický

insanbilimsel

人类学的

anthropological

[ˌænθrəpəˈlɒdʒikəl] ADJ → antropológico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

anthropological

[ˌænθrəpəˈlɒdʒɪk^əl] adj → anthropologique

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anthropological

adj → anthropologisch

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anthropological

[ˌænθrəpəˈlɒdʒɪk/əl] adj → antropologico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

anthropology

(ӕnθrəˈpolədʒi) noun

the study of human society, customs, beliefs etc.

anthropoˈlogical (-ˈlo-) adjective

ˌanthroˈpologist noun

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References in classic literature

A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum.

View in context

The study is then completed by a much more anthropological fourth chapter that examines the place and role of youths, the deceased, masks, and executions in the context of the Carnival/Lent season.

Carnevale e Quaresima. Comportamenti sociale e cultura a Firenze nel Rinascimento

Finally, a seam of anthropological scholarship on burial practices offers exquisitely detailed portraits of bereavement at the household and community level.

The forgotten compass of death: apocalypse then and now in the social history of South Africa

This reflection is interwoven with a critical examination of many written works and their authors, of the postmodernist influence on fieldwork, of social change and development, of the limits of anthropological understanding, of psychoanalysis and sociobiology, as well as of himself as a `born eclectic' who is happiest with ethnography and hypotheses deriving from ethnographic comparison.

Landmarks: Reflections on Anthropology

Revisions to the American Anthropological AssociationAEs code of ethics over a three year period serve as an extended example of the challenges of applying ethical principles in the social sciences research.

Anthropological Ethics in Context: An Ongoing Dialogue

Among the topics are the ontogeny of an anthropological epistemology in 18th-century Scotland, changing modern institutional forms (disciplines and nation states), an Afro-Brazilian theory of the creative process, intersubjectivity as epistemology, the all-or-nothing syndrome and the human condition, and perspectives from Africa on epistemology and ethics.

The challenge of epistemology; anthropological perspectives

Thomas proposes that the time has come to focus instead on Cook's anthropological and scientific contributions.

Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook

Thus what began as an anti-imperialistic anthropological and historiographical romanticizing of native male Americans has been to some degree converted into a gay view that the large majority of those who became berdaches, in Will Roscoe's words, "did so entirely of their own volition." Indeed, Roscoe assures his readers that "most recent works see the berdaches not as passive but as agents, with free will." (11)

Making the American berdache: Choice or constraint?