ANTHROPOLOGY — ANTHROPOLOGY, literally an account of man, is the comparative study of human societies and cultures. Anthropology has four major subfields: archaeology , the study of past cultures through an examination of material remains; biological (physical) … Encyclopedia of Judaism
anthropology — anthropological /an threuh peuh loj i keuhl/, anthropologic, adj. anthropologically, adv. /an threuh pol euh jee/, n. 1. the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs… … Universalium
Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… … Universalium
1939 in anthropology — 1939 in anthropologyEventsPublicationsBirths*Mary Bateson *Maurice Bloch Deaths*Arthur Maurice Hocart *Lucien Levy Bruhl *Edward Sapiree also* List of years in anthropology * 1938 in anthropology * 1940 in anthropology … Wikipedia
1941 in anthropology — 1941 in anthropologyEventsPublicationsBirths*H. James Birx *Richard Dawkins Deaths*Carl Vilhelm Hartman *Elsie Clews Parsons *Benjamin Whorfee also* List of years in anthropology * 1940 in anthropology * 1942 in anthropology … Wikipedia
List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1940 — 1940 U.S. and Canadian Fellows= * Gregory Ain, Deceased. Architecture: 1940. * Bernard Arnest, Deceased. Fine Arts Painting: 1940. * Lawrence Louis Barrett, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1940. * Richmond Barthé, Deceased. Fine Arts Sculpture: 1940, 1941.… … Wikipedia
philosophical anthropology — anthropology (def. 4). * * * Study of human nature conducted by the methods of philosophy. It is concerned with questions such as the status of human beings in the universe, the purpose or meaning of human life, and whether humanity can be made… … Universalium
cultural anthropology — cultural anthropologist. the branch of anthropology dealing with the origins, history, and development of human culture, and including in its scope the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and ethnography. Also called social anthropology. Cf.… … Universalium
Social anthropology — is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long term, intensive field studies (including participant observation methods),… … Wikipedia
social anthropology — The study of the entire range of cultures and societies in the world, although originally the discipline tended to concentrate on non Western and so called primitive societies. There are significant overlaps with sociology , but also important… … Dictionary of sociology
