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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems

Synonyms:

cultural anthropologist; social anthropologist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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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