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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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"In India, marriages are between families and not just a couple," explains social anthropologist Prof AR Vasavi.

From BBC • May 13, 2022

Murray Roberts, a Kenyan-born rangeland management specialist, and Elizabeth Meyerhoff-Roberts, a social anthropologist with comprehensive knowledge of the local people, run the nonprofit Rehabilitation of Arid Environments Trust in Baringo County in Kenya.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 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

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