As a noun anthropology
is the holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
As an adjective linguistics is
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anthropology
Noun
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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.
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
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* anthropologic
* anthropological
* anthropologist
* cultural anthropology
* social anthropology
* paleoanthropology
* physical anthropology
* biological anthropology
* linguistic anthropology
* socio-cultural anthropology
* neuroanthropology
See also
* archaeology
* paleontology
* sociology
linguistics
English
Synonyms
* (l)
Meronyms
* See also
Derived terms
* algebraic linguistics
* applied linguistics
* archaeolinguistics
* biolinguistics
* clinical linguistics
* comparative linguistics
* computational linguistics
* diachronic linguistics
* ecolinguistics
* ethnolinguistics
* Eurolinguistics
* evolutionary linguistics
* historical linguistics
* interlinguistics
* metalinguistics
* microlinguistics
* neurolinguistics
* paleolinguistics
* pseudolinguistics
* psycholinguistics
* sociolinguistics
* theolinguistics
* xenolinguistics
Related terms
* linguist
* linguistic
See also
* diction
* grammar
* morphology
* philology
* phonetics
* phonology
* pragmatics
* semantics
* syntax
