Anthropology consists of the study of humankind. Central to anthropology is the concept of culture and that our species has evolved a universal capacity to conceive of the world symbolically, to teach and learn such symbols socially, and to transform the world (and ourselves) based on such symbols.

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Unwritten articles in this category:

• The Civilized World (What is and defines the Civilized World? Which nations belong in it, and which are not Civilized?)
• Hamman-Todd collection (important historic collection of human skeletal remains)
• Terry collection (important historic collection of human skeletal remains)
• Anthropological Research Facility (also known as "the Body Farm")
• William M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection
• Thomas Dwight (1843 - 1919) physical anthropologist
• Ales Hrdlicka (1869 - 1943) physical anthropologist
• Earnest Hooton (1887 - 1954) physical anthropologist, Professor at Harvard University
• T. Dale Stewart (1901 - 1997) physical anthropologist, curator at Smithsonian Institution
• J. Lawrence Angel (1915 - 1986) physical anthropologist, Professor at Harvard University
• Ellis R. Kerley (1924 - 1998) physical anthropologist
• William M. Bass physical anthropologist
• Clyde C. Snow physical anthropologist
• Arthur Kemp
• Douglas H. Ubelaker physical anthropologist, curator at Smithsonian Institution
• Richard L. Jantz physical anthropologist
• Wilton M. Krogman physical anthropologist
• Wiliam R. Maples physical anthropologist
• Mildred Trotter physical anthropologist, curator at Smithsonian Institution
• American Indian land claims
• Dilatory Domiciles (Periodic updates of Social Register?)
• Mkodos (tribe, Madagascar)
• Chief Jean Baptiste de Richardville
• Social Register Association (organization that decides who gets into the Social Register)
• sociometrics
• prehispanic
• Uyghurs, ethnic group of NW China w/ separatist movement, plaid-clad mummies, & genetics atypical for Asia. Article needs to be expanded.

Subcategories

There are 11 subcategories to this category.

Anthropologists Archaeology C Cultural anthropology

C cont. Culture E Ethnic groups Ethnicity Ethnography

P Physical anthropology S Social sciences methodology Structuralism T Time capsules

Articles in category "Anthropology"

There are 74 articles in this category.

Action group Age grade Age set Ancestor worship Anthropological Society of London Anthropological linguistics Anthropological theories of value Anthropology Anthropology of religion Anthropometry Archaeology B Band society Barbarian Behavioral modernity C Caucasian race Civilization Classification of Native Americans Classificatory Collectivist and Individualist cultures Cradle of Humanity Cranial capacity Cultural anthropology Cultural area Cultural ecology

C cont. Cultural identity Cultural materialism D Dendrochronology Diffusion (anthropology) Diffusion of innovations Discourse E Economic anthropology Ethnobotany Ethnography Ethnology Evolutionism F Fictive kinship First contact (anthropology) Folk religion Johann Carl Fuhlrott Functionalism (sociology) G Grave goods H Shrunken head Horse culture Human geography Human height Human weight Hunter-gatherer I Ichthyophagi J Jakten på Odin

K Kinship M Manhood Matriarchy N Nomad O Ötzi the Iceman Outside Context Problem P Paleoethnobotany Patriarchy Patriclan Performance Studies Phratry Physical anthropology Political anthropology Positivism Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact Prehistory Proto-Australoid R Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) S Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Scenester Science studies Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Sworn virgin U Uyghur W World view