social anthropologist

American  

[soh-shuhl an-thruh-pah-luhj-ist] / ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˌæn θrəˈpɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

plural

social anthropologists

1. cultural anthropologist.

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Example Sentences

The fruit was blessed, then “slain by the spear,” as the British social anthropologist E.E.

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

If extensive areas of land prohibit trail hunting then it's "difficult to see" how the sport could be sustained, suggests social anthropologist Prof. Gary Marvin of Roehampton University.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2021

In 2012, social anthropologist Renny Thomas joined a chemistry laboratory at the Indian Institute of Sciences to study caste dynamics at the institute, arguably India's most elite science university.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021

Jonah Lipton is a social anthropologist who unexpectedly became a specialist during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2020

The social anthropologist, classicist, and etiquette historian Margaret Visser wrote, in her canonical 1991 book, “The Rituals of Dinner,” that manners “do not constitute virtue, but they do set out to imitate virtue’s outward appearance.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018