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anthrohistory (uncountable)

  1. A branch or method of history which incorporates anthropology.
    • 1965 Dec, “Associates in Current Anthropology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 6, number 5, page 625:
      SHAW, THURSTAN. Rsc. Prof. Arch., U. of Ibadan, Nigeria. Arch., all periods, anthrohistory, history of smoking & early smoking pipes. W. Africa. Fr.
    • 1992, John M. Tutino, "Nation-States and Indians in Latin America" (Review), The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Nov., 1992), pg. 609:
      It calls for a new anthrohistory to explore the complex interactions of power and culture as they change over periods not only of decades, but of centuries.
    • 2008, Kelly Chaves, "Ethnohistory: From Inception to Postmodernism and Beyond," Historian, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Fall 2008), pg. 510:
      With more focus on theory and a rebranding—from ethnohistory to anthrohistory or anthropological history—Krech foresees a continuance of certain aspects of the methodology, but most of it should be discarded in the rubbish bin of outdated scholarly movements.