cultural anthropology

noun

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Definition of cultural anthropology

: anthropology that deals with human culture especially with respect to social structure, language, law, politics, religion, magic, art, and technology — compare physical anthropology

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cultural anthropologist

noun

Recent Examples of cultural anthropology from the Web

Margaret began her master’s degree in ethnology and museum ethnography at Oxford and decided to stay and pursue her doctorate in cultural anthropology.

— m.a.c. lynch, courant.com, "Love Story: African Decathlete and American Rower On Love Safari," 10 June 2018
Both books are filled with stories like that of Josh Sucher, a Bard graduate who translated lessons from cultural anthropology into market research for Etsy.

— michael s. roth, WSJ, "The Liberal Arts Are Marketable," 4 Sep. 2017

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First Known Use of cultural anthropology

1878

in the meaning defined above

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