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单词 anthropology
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Definition of anthropology in English:

anthropology

noun ˌanθrəˈpɒlədʒiˌænθrəˈpɑlədʒi
mass noun
  • 1The study of human societies and cultures and their development.

    Also called cultural anthropology, social anthropology
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As noted above, Australian anthropology incorporates a long tradition of research on Aboriginal societies and on societies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
    • Before proceeding, it is important to examine the theoretical developments in anthropology on the politics of reproduction.
    • So he studied anthropology, inquisitive about human societies and their desires and needs.
    • Comparative studies declined and anthropology shifted to universities.
    • His expedition was less a holiday than an exercise in comparative anthropology, since he wanted to examine the differences between American and Australian myths.
    • Ethnography is a research approach that developed in anthropology to study cultural groups and that has more recently been used to study small-group culture.
    1. 1.1 The study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.
      Also called physical anthropology
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Within ecological anthropology there were also critiques of an overemphasis on bounded local analyses.
      • Ecological anthropology has a long and distinguished history in Papua New Guinea.
      • The categories and relations of evolutionist theory in anthropology expressed deeply held values.
      • Another important area that will be influenced is anthropology, evolution and human migration.
      • I studied plants and plant evolution for the last six to seven years in the states and was in charge of science at the museum, mainly anthropology and zoology.
      • Terrence Deacon works at the interface between neurobiology, developmental biology and biological anthropology.
      • Since the 1990s, ecological anthropology has incorporated a political dimension into ecological analysis.
      • The new Cartesianism of cognitive science and biological anthropology provide some contemporary exemplars.
      • It provides a solid underpinning of evolutionary biology for those who want to explore ecology, anthropology and social evolution anywhere on earth.
      • On the contrary, his assessment of the economic origins of human evolution relies heavily on literature, data and facts from anthropology, biology and other natural sciences.
      • He is a little too fond of building huge abstract entities on the back of discoveries from anthropology, zoology and neuroscience.
      • The new ecology movement in anthropology relates to a deeper understanding of the relationship of technology and social organization to the environment.
      • He has no more training in fields relevant to evolution - biology, paleontology, anthropology, geology, etc - than I or most other people do.
 
 

Definition of anthropology in US English:

anthropology

nounˌanTHrəˈpäləjēˌænθrəˈpɑlədʒi
  • 1The study of human societies and cultures and their development.

    Also called cultural anthropology, social anthropology
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Comparative studies declined and anthropology shifted to universities.
    • So he studied anthropology, inquisitive about human societies and their desires and needs.
    • His expedition was less a holiday than an exercise in comparative anthropology, since he wanted to examine the differences between American and Australian myths.
    • As noted above, Australian anthropology incorporates a long tradition of research on Aboriginal societies and on societies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
    • Ethnography is a research approach that developed in anthropology to study cultural groups and that has more recently been used to study small-group culture.
    • Before proceeding, it is important to examine the theoretical developments in anthropology on the politics of reproduction.
    1. 1.1 The study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.
      Also called physical anthropology
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is a little too fond of building huge abstract entities on the back of discoveries from anthropology, zoology and neuroscience.
      • I studied plants and plant evolution for the last six to seven years in the states and was in charge of science at the museum, mainly anthropology and zoology.
      • The categories and relations of evolutionist theory in anthropology expressed deeply held values.
      • Within ecological anthropology there were also critiques of an overemphasis on bounded local analyses.
      • The new ecology movement in anthropology relates to a deeper understanding of the relationship of technology and social organization to the environment.
      • On the contrary, his assessment of the economic origins of human evolution relies heavily on literature, data and facts from anthropology, biology and other natural sciences.
      • The new Cartesianism of cognitive science and biological anthropology provide some contemporary exemplars.
      • He has no more training in fields relevant to evolution - biology, paleontology, anthropology, geology, etc - than I or most other people do.
      • Another important area that will be influenced is anthropology, evolution and human migration.
      • Ecological anthropology has a long and distinguished history in Papua New Guinea.
      • It provides a solid underpinning of evolutionary biology for those who want to explore ecology, anthropology and social evolution anywhere on earth.
      • Since the 1990s, ecological anthropology has incorporated a political dimension into ecological analysis.
      • Terrence Deacon works at the interface between neurobiology, developmental biology and biological anthropology.
 
 
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