anthropology
The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
Example
“According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.”
Other meanings
The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in Christian anthropology.
Related words
- autoanthropology
- cyberanthropology
- entropology
- palaeanthropology
- paleoanthropologist
- planthropology
- anthropologic
- anthropological
- anthropologist
- anthroposociology
- astroanthropology
- bioanthropology
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἄνθρωπος" (human, mankind).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “anthropology” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.