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Meaning of anthropography | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

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.

uncountable

Equivalents

Español antropografía
Français anthropographie
Polski antropografia
Português antropografia

Examples

“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[…]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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