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STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does structural anthropology mean? 

STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)
  The noun STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomenaplay

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


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STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (noun)


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Meaning:

An anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

structural anthropology; structuralism

Hypernyms ("structural anthropology" is a kind of...):

theory (a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena)

Holonyms ("structural anthropology" is a part of...):

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)


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