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SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society
Synonyms:
cultural anthropology; social anthropology
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("social 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 "social 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:
social anthropologist (an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems)
