Project V17/Powers/Shardless/Technology and Artifice Power Upgrades/Anthropology

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Anthropology

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Originally the scientific study of human culture, habits, beliefs, traditions, and origins when humanity was only limited to Terra, and its surrounding systems, Anthropology has extended to cover sophonts in general. This includes analysis of comparative sophont biology, memeticities (beliefs, customs, and local cultures), language, development, history, and so on of a single culture to vast interstellar polities consisting of million variable cultures and subcultures under the sway of the Archailects within the modern era. Includes some extensive records on the study of Archailectology, that being the art and science of dealing with Archailects.AI-gods as well as Archaeoxenology, specifically the study of ancient alien (non-terragen) sapients and their cultures.