cultural anthropology

Noun

Meaning

the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

social anthropology ethnology ethnography anthropology cultural anthropologist human ecology cultural relativism cultural evolution cultural studies cultural analysis socio-cultural anthropology cross-cultural studies cultural interpretation cultural sociology cultural identity

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Hypernyms

anthropology

Hyponyms

mythology ritualism garbology

Examples

As a methodological and heuristic device According to George Marcus, Michael Fischer, and Sam Bohart, :20th century social and cultural anthropology has promised its still largely Western readership enlightenment on two fronts. Source: Internet

Murdock, who despised the Boasian paradigm of cultural anthropology, dismantled most of Sapir's efforts to integrate anthropology, psychology, and linguistics. Source: Internet

George Gummerman and Miranda Warburton view archaeoastronomy as part of an archaeology informed by cultural anthropology and aimed at understanding a "group's conception of themselves in relation to the heavens', in a word, its cosmology. Source: Internet

Grant McCracken holds a PhD from the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology. Source: Internet

As a scholar with a four-year degree in cultural anthropology, and as an Indigenous person, I wholeheartedly disagree. Source: Internet

Rob's studies focused on non-western theatre, cultural anthropology and development studies. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cultural cultural analysis cultural anthropologist cultural appreciation cultural appropriation cultural appropriator