أنثروبولوجيا العصور، أنثروبولوجيا السـن أو العمر
Explanation:
The American Heritage Dictionary defines anthropology as "the scientific study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans."
This is a rather limited definition, restricted as it is to anthropology as a modern empirical science. Anthroplogy is also a name of a philosophical subject, typically the first subject of philosophy in a Bachelor's degree curriculum, dealing, among other things with the nature of the human soul, freedom of the will, immortality, etc. For that reason, it is sometimes called "philosophical psychology." The course is a necessary introduction to ethics and is commonly called "Philosopy of the Human Person" on various college campuses.
Your context is most probably about anthropology as an empirical science, but the limited fragment that you posted leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
At first, and before I saw your additional comment, I thought that a word was missing. Perhaps the phrase was something like "ice-age anthropology," or "iron-age anthropology," or "bronze-age anthropology."
after seeing the other fragment in your additional comment, my best guess is that the phrase "age anthropology" could mean one of two things:
1. Anthropology taught in a chronological sequence or according to anthropological ages, such as stone age, bronze age, etc.; or
2. Anthropology of age, i.e, a study of the effect and/or significance of age and aging on humans.
Without addtional context, it is not possible to ascertain which of these is more likely. A phone call to your client would help.
Anthropology does in fact derive much of its data from a study of past ages, but, at least in the West, it primarily concerns itself with an understanding of human nature as it applies to us today. In other words, knowldge of past ages or of various societies, some of which may be in primitive conditions, is used to expand the data of enquiry in order to enhance the soundness of conclusions about present-day human existence.
Anthropology is, of course, a Greek-based construction. Anthropos is used for both "man" as a name for the human species or "man" in reference to the male human. In this construction, it refers to the human species.
Arabs have commonly referred to the science as أنثروبولوجيا (very common) or علم الإنسان
I am sure other contending terms have been used and others yet possible, such as البشريات
The primary challenge, however, is to ascertain the actual subject matter intended, especially with regards to the word "age".
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peer agreement (net): +2