anthropography
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English
Etymology
Noun
anthropography (uncountable)
- The branch of anthropology that deals with the geographical distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which deals historically with the origin and filiation of races and nations.
- 1836, G. Long, “On the Study of Geography”, in The schoolmaster:
- Anthropography should treat of the varieties of the human race, as at present existing, and as determined by those physiological characters in which the best judges agree
Translations
that branch of anthropology
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Further reading
Human geography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “anthropography”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anthropography”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)