social anthropology

American  

noun

1. cultural anthropology.

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social anthropology British  

noun

1. the branch of anthropology that deals with cultural and social phenomena such as kinship systems or beliefs, esp of nonliterate peoples

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Other Word Forms

• social anthropologist
  noun

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social anthropology

Gonzalez said Ybarra encouraged her to continue climbing higher until she finished her doctorate in cultural and social anthropology from San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Freer graduated from Scotland’s University of St. Andrews in 2016, debt-free and with a master’s degree in English and social anthropology.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

Kvedaravicius was born in 1976, studied at Vilnius University and got a degree in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, according to the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2022

The researcher at Sciences-Po university in Paris is a specialist in social anthropology and the political anthropology of post-revolutionary Iran, and has written a number of books.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022

Xiang Biao, a professor of social anthropology at Oxford University who focuses on Chinese society, called tangping culture a turning point for China.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2021