Anthropology

E591426

academic discipline field of study science of humanity social science

Anthropology is the holistic scientific study of humans, past and present, encompassing their cultures, societies, languages, and biological evolution.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Anthropology canonical	1
Islamic anthropology	1
Sociologie et anthropologie	1

Statements (69)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic discipline ⓘ field of study ⓘ science of humanity ⓘ social science ⓘ
aimsTo	understand human universals ⓘ understand human variation ⓘ
appliedIn	business ⓘ development studies ⓘ education ⓘ global health ⓘ human rights ⓘ public policy ⓘ
emergedInCentury	19th century ⓘ
focusesOn	cultural diversity ⓘ economic systems ⓘ human adaptation ⓘ human evolution ⓘ kinship systems ⓘ language use in social context ⓘ material culture ⓘ political systems ⓘ religious beliefs ⓘ social organization ⓘ symbolism ⓘ
hasApproach	holistic approach ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Bronisław Malinowski NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ E. E. Evans-Pritchard NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Burnett Tylor NERFINISHED ⓘ Franz Boas NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Henry Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcel Mauss NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Mead NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Benedict NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasOrganization	American Anthropological Association NERFINISHED ⓘ European Association of Social Anthropologists NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Anthropological Institute NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSubdiscipline	applied anthropology ⓘ archaeology ⓘ biological anthropology ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ economic anthropology ⓘ environmental anthropology ⓘ forensic anthropology ⓘ linguistic anthropology ⓘ medical anthropology ⓘ physical anthropology ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ psychological anthropology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ visual anthropology ⓘ
relatedTo	archaeology ⓘ biology ⓘ history ⓘ linguistics ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ
studies	human behavior ⓘ human biological evolution ⓘ human cultures ⓘ human language ⓘ human societies ⓘ humans ⓘ
usesMethod	comparative method ⓘ ethnography ⓘ fieldwork ⓘ participant observation ⓘ qualitative research ⓘ quantitative research ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Anthropology
Description of subject: Anthropology is the holistic scientific study of humans, past and present, encompassing their cultures, societies, languages, and biological evolution.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Emotions → isStudiedIn → Anthropology ⓘ

Creation of Adam → hasInfluenceOn → Anthropology ⓘ

this entity surface form: Islamic anthropology

Marcel Mauss → notableWork → Anthropology ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sociologie et anthropologie