English-French translations for anthropology

• anthropologie
  Votre anthropologie, c'est un peu du Levi-Strauss: lui, c'était le cru et le cuit, vous c'est l'ouvert et le fermé! Your anthropology has a little of LeviStrauss in it: for him, it was the raw and the cooked, for you it is the open and shut!

Definition of anthropology

• The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method

Examples

• According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology (i.e., "kin naming systems"): Sudanese, Hawaiian, Eskimo, Crow, Omaha, and Iroquois

Related words

• anthropologist
• anthropological
• anthropologic
• palaeoanthropologist
• paleoanthropologist
• paleoanthropology
• anthropologically
• bioanthropologist
• bioanthropology