Sentence examples for anthropology from inspiring English sources
The word 'anthropology' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
You can use it whenever you are referring to the scientific study of humans and their societies, cultures, and origins. For example: "I am studying anthropology in college to learn more about the development of human society."
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The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
- According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology (i.e., "kin naming systems"): Sudanese, Hawaiian, Eskimo, Crow, Omaha, and Iroquois.
"Having spent much of my life leading a fairly bohemian existence, comparatively insulated from this sort of thing, I found myself asking: is this what ordinary life, for most people, is really like?" writes the 53-year-old professor of anthropology in his new book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
Robin Dunbar, the director of the institute of cognitive and evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, showed the audience how he had scientifically unwrapped the sentiment and cant surrounding modern ideas about friendship and the enhancing role of social networking technology.
The student Lillie Grimshaw, 18, BA anthropology, UCL "The big choice was what to study with my chosen A-levels.
Natalie Fiennes is an MSc student studying political sociology and Ellen Lees is an undergraduate student studying social anthropology at LSE.
She said her anthropology professor at Cambridge was an influential figure who had encouraged her to question the way women had been erased from history, starting with the Ishango bone, with the very first recorded markings of a lunar cycle, famously proclaimed as "man's first attempt at a calendar".
This isn't an anthropology of believers – that would be a work of ages.
Sally Mann's photograph of a body looking peaceful in the forest, being reclaimed by nature, brings a strange beauty to the otherwise gruesome idea of the "body farm" as the University of Tennessee's forensic-anthropology unit is known, where she shot the decomposing corpses.
In "Cold comfort farm" (January 3rd) we said that the Freeman Ranch forensic-anthropology research facility is run by the University of Texas.
Books known as nihonjinron, a class of pop-anthropology books that revelled in the uniqueness of the Japanese, were cranked out so frequently, and resembled each other so closely, that they rarely topped the charts of bestsellers.
The camera traps were set by researchers studying primates rather than cats – Samuel Angedakin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and by Yasuko Tashiro of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University.
Try 'sociology'anthropologyogy'historyory', etc to see what I mean".
