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Geography vs Anthropology - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between geography and anthropology

is that geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth while anthropology is the holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.

geography

English

Noun

(wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)
  • The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
  • The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
  • * 1973 , Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
    • The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

    Derived terms

    * biogeography * geographer * geographic * geographical * phytogeography * zoogeography

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    anthropology

    English

    (wikipedia anthropology)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    Usage notes

    * Anthropology is distinguished from other social science disciplines by its emphasis on in-depth examination of context, cross-cultural comparisons, and the importance it places on long-term, experiential immersion in the area of research.

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    () * anthropologic * anthropological * anthropologist * cultural anthropology * social anthropology * paleoanthropology * physical anthropology * biological anthropology * linguistic anthropology * socio-cultural anthropology * neuroanthropology

    See also

    * archaeology * paleontology * sociology

    External links

    * * English words suffixed with -ology