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social anthropologist

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

noun

  • social anthropologists
    plural
  1. cultural anthropologist.


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Daphne Bedinade, a social anthropologist, told Le Monde newspaper: "To make this only about hair discrimination is to mask the problems of people whose hair makes them a target of discrimination, mostly black women."

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

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

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

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

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

“There are around 50,000 people living in the danger zone,” says Noah Walker-Crawford, a social anthropologist from Manchester University.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2018

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