Another word for anthropology

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anthropology

science of humans, study of humans, study of culture. see also social science, sociology.

Branches of anthropology include: anthropometry, anthropography, anthropogeography, ethnography, ethnology, demography, sociology, prehistoric anthropology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, human paleontology, archaeology, folklore, eugenics, criminology, psychology;

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In 1907 he was elected professor of social anthropology at Liverpool.
It seems as if anthropology had in this direction reached the limits of its discoveries.
One of these, the Letter to a Professor of Anthropology, was translated without.
The first three books treat of God, the world, the fall of spirits, anthropology and ethics.
- vi., geography and ethnography; vii., anthropology and human physiology; viii.

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