anthropology

Noun
  1. The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings (synset 106152997)
    associated with:
    • ethos - (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
    • eidos - (anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
    • kinship system - (anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailed
    • affine - (anthropology) kin by marriage
    • family relationship, kinship, relationship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
    • affinity - (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
    • blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity - (anthropology) related by blood
    • primitive - used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
    • endogamic, endogamous - pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe
    • exogamic, exogamous - pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe
    • outbred - bred of parents not closely related; having parents of different classes or tribes
    • affinal, affine - (anthropology) related by marriage
    • mongoloid - of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia
    is a type of: social science - the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society
    subtypes:
    has: structural anthropology, structuralism - an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena

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