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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 societyplay

  Familiarity information: CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)


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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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