Anthropology

Anthropology (/ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/) is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "human being", and -logia (-λογία), "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German philosopher Magnus Hundt.

Anthropology's basic concerns are "What defines Homo sapiens?", "Who are the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?", "What are humans' physical traits?", "How do humans behave?", "Why are there variations and differences among different groups of humans?", "How has the evolutiona
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New Releases Tagged "Anthropology"

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Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
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Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Interpretation of Cultures
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
Tristes Tropiques
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Patterns of Culture
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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Curious Minds
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