Anthropology vs. Ethnography

Anthropologynoun

The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.

Anthropologynoun

The science of the structure and functions of the human body.

Anthropologynoun

The science of man, including the study of the ditribution of physical and cultural attributes in relation to man's origin, location, history, and environment; - sometimes used in a limited sense to mean the study of man as an object of natural history, or as an animal.

Anthropologynoun

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. See also anthropopathite, anthropopathism, anthropomorphist.

Anthropologynoun

the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings

Anthropologynoun

the study of human societies and cultures and their development.

Anthropologynoun

the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.

Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures and societies, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values.

Ethnographynoun

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

Ethnographynoun

That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

Ethnographynoun

the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos and γράφω grapho ) is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study.