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

Russian social anthropologist Aleksandra Arkhipova describes the videos as "rituals of guilt and shame" that amount to extrajudicial punishment.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2024

At George Washington University, Sarah Wagner, a social anthropologist who researches death and mourning, has a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effects of Covid misinformation.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 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