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Meaning of ANTHROPOGRAPHY

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\An`thro*pog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? man + -graphy.]
That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual
distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as
distinguished by physical character, language, institutions,
and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which
treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and
nations. --P. Cyc.
 

 

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