Anthropology

Anthropology

The science of man as he exists or has existed under different physical and social conditions.

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Category: Encyclopedias
Organization: Project Gutenberg
Product: The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
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Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

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The science of man in general.

anthropology

Science; General science

The scientific study of humans. It includes the study of how the humans behave and how the first humans developed.

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Archaeology; General archaeology

The study of humanity - our physical characteristics as animals, and our unique non-biological characteristics we call culture. The subject is generally broken down into three ...

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Archaeology; Human evolution

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unitarians

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A designation applicable to all monotheists in religion, including Jews and Mohammedans, but generally and more specially applied to those who deny the Church doctrine of the ...

Ural

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A river of Russia, which rises in the E. of the Urals and forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia, and falls after a course of 870 m. by a number of mouths into the ...

Tournay

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A town of Hainault, Belgium, on the Scheldt, 35 m. SW. of Brussels; in the 5th century was the seat of the Merovingian kings, but now presents a handsome modern appearance; has a ...

Volsungs

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A race figuring in Norse and German legend of the 12th century, and with the fate in whose history it is so widely occupied, and that of its heroes.

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