anthropologizev.
/ˌanθrəˈpɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌænθrəˈpɑləˌdʒaɪz/ colloquial.
1. intransitive. To treat something anthropologically. Also: to study or carry out research into anthropology.
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the world > people > science of mankind > [verb (intransitive)] > anthropology
anthropologize1941
1873 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 179 And who does not anthropologize, either from a scientific or a religious point of view?
1941 R. R. Marett Jerseyman at Oxf. xii. 178 To anthropologize in the field would have attracted me greatly.
2002 D. Shanzer in G. Halsall Humour, Hist. & Politics in Late Antiq. (2004) i. 46 If one be tempted to anthropologise and assume that earnest early medievals seriously envisaged miniature demons on lettuces, one must consider the devil's language.
2. transitive. To apply anthropological principles to; to explain, treat, or study (a culture, people, etc.) anthropologically.
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the world > people > science of mankind > [verb (transitive)] > anthropology
anthropologize1921
1921 Unitarian Reg. 22 Dec. 1208/2 In terms of lessening concreteness he [sc. man] will anthropologize the great X on which he depends.
1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press ii. v. 285 Modish enough to play at anthropologising an unknown culture.
1973 Lebende Sprachen 18 65/1 Kaufman spent some time anthropologising a nomadic tribe, the Tamashek.
2001 H. McDonald Blood, Bones, & Spirit Introd. 4 It makes no sense to anthropologise Aboriginal Christianity but to leave Western Christianity unexamined as an historical or cosmological given.
Derivatives
ˌanthroˈpologizing n.
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1919 Princeton Theol. Rev. 17 28 A school would have to be organized in which the curriculum would avoid..the ‘anthropologizing’ of the Humanists.
1998 S. Razack in K. Daly & L. Maher Criminol. at Crossroads xiii. 232 The anthropologizing of sexual assault continues to have gendered overtones.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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