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Definition of Anthropology
Anthropology

The science of the structure and functions of the human body.

The science of man; -- sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

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Anthropology Quotations

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over except when they are different.
Nancy Banks-Smith

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
Tim Robbins

Anthropology Translations

anthropology in French is anthropologie
anthropology in German is Menschenkunde {f}, Anthropologie {f}
anthropology in Swedish is antropologi


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