I gather the phrase is used in lieu of some more practical benefit, e.g., a "job," which, as holders of English lit and anthro degrees can tell you, isn't necessarily part of the program.
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Anthro
//ˈænθɹoʊ//
Synonyms for "anthro" (2 found)
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5 translations across 3 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 獸人 /兽人 noun (An anthropomorphic character.)
Esperanto
3 entries- homforma adj (Anthropomorphic.)
- homformulino noun (An anthropomorphic character.)
- homformulo noun (An anthropomorphic character.)
French
1 entries- anthro noun (An anthropomorphic character.)
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Unlikely as it seemed, he might somehow return to the Empire, and if that happened, any information he could bring back would be valuable to the socio and anthro specialists.
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Workshop anthros often ask Indians of tender age to give their authoritative answers to problems which an entire generation of Indians is just now beginning to solve.
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While Deloria may have hoped to move anthropologists to be more appreciative, Erdoes simply sets scholars up as straw men for the average non-Indian academic reader to self-servingly scorn. Anthros are responsible for believing reservation Indians are “warriors without weapons” (1972:36-37)
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