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⇑Anthropology at Mainz University

Language: German Studies in German

Subject area: physical science, environment

University website: www.uni-mainz.de

degree: Dr. phil.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the biological development of humans.

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Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or months

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955) Tristes Tropiques

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The last bastions of resistance to evolutionary theory are organized religion and cultural anthropology.

Napoleon Chagnon cited in: "How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist" by Emily Eakin, The New York Times. February 13, 2013

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Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant.

Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead, (1986)

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