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Definition of じんるい‐がく in the Japanese dictionary
Scholarship 【Anthropology】 A discipline to study human biological and cultural heritage. It is divided into trait anthropology that deals with human beings as a living thing and cultural anthropology that deals with cultures that human beings have built up. Initially it meant the former, but the latter developed from the mid-19th century. じんるい‐がく【人類学】 人間の生物的側面と文化的所産とを研究する学問。生物としての人間を扱う形質人類学と、人間が築き上げてきた文化を課題とする文化人類学とに二分される。初めは前者を意味したが、19世紀半ばごろから後者が発達。
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10 JAPANESE BOOKS RELATING TO «じんるい‐がく»
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