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"(informal, uncountable) Anthropology."
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"text": "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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