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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social anthropologist mean? 

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systemsplay

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cultural anthropologist; social anthropologist

Hypernyms ("social anthropologist" is a kind of...):

anthropologist (a social scientist who specializes in anthropology)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social anthropologist"):

ritualist (a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies)

Derivation:

social anthropology (the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society)


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