anthropography

English

Etymology

Noun

anthropography (uncountable)

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.
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Translations

branch of anthropology that deals with human divisions as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions and customs

French: anthropographie (fr) f
Portuguese: antropografia f

Spanish: antropografía m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anthropography in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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