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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cultural anthropology mean?
• CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
The noun CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society
Familiarity information: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cultural anthropology; social anthropology
Hypernyms ("cultural anthropology" is a kind of...):
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cultural anthropology"):
garbology (the study of a society by analyzing its garbage)
mythology (the study of myths)
ritualism (the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies)
Derivation:
cultural anthropologist (an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems)
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