anthropology
an-thruh-POL-uh-jeenounMeaning the study of human beings and their ways of life
Memory hook ANTHROPO + LOGY: the study of PEOPLE. Ada spends a year in a mountain village, writing down how people cook, dance, farm and tell stories: she works in anthropology.
Maya plans to study anthropology to learn how people around the world celebrate the new year.
In context Her work in anthropology took her to dozens of villages, where she recorded how families farmed, cooked, told stories and raised their children.
Similar study of humankind, ethnology
From Greek anthropos (human being) + -logia (study).