  We consider, in the effective field theory context, anomalies of gauge field
theories on a slice of a five-dimensional, Anti-de Sitter geometry and their
four-dimensional, holographic duals. A consistent effective field theory
description can always be found, notwithstanding the presence of the anomalies
and without modifying the degrees of freedom of the theory. If anomalies do not
vanish, the d=4 theory contains additional pseudoscalar states, which are
either present in the low-energy theory as physical, light states, or are eaten
by (would-be massless) gauge bosons. We show that the pseudoscalars ensure that
global anomalies of the four-dimensional dual satisfy the 't Hooft matching
condition and comment on the relevance for warped models of electroweak
symmetry breaking.
