cultural anthropology

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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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Recent Examples on the Web But more profound promises of genome sequencing have been accumulating stealthily in recent years, in fields from personal health to cultural anthropology to environmental monitoring. — New York Times, "A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight Covid. What Else Can It Do?," 25 Mar. 2021 As a member of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe and a former expert in cultural anthropology for the state, Enbridge hired Jones to walk the pipeline route and ensure no violation of Indigenous spaces or ruins. — Bill Weir, CNN, "As spring thaws the Minnesota ice, a new pipeline battle fires up," 13 Mar. 2021 New departments of sociology and cultural anthropology kept their eye on the societal side of health, while the nation’s first schools of public health focused instead on fights between germs and individuals. — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, "How Science Beat the Virus," 17 Dec. 2020 Jacobs graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in art history and holds a master of social science in cultural anthropology and history from the University of Colorado. — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio Missions gets new park superintendent," 7 Oct. 2020 The next months not only profoundly altered his life and values but, ultimately, helped redefine the very meaning and practice of cultural anthropology. — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, "A storied life remembered: Richard Nelson’s Alaska legacy," 9 Aug. 2020 Sonja Michal Smith is a graduate student in socio-cultural anthropology at Northern Arizona University. — Popular Science, "Arizona reopened too quickly. Now Indigenous nations are paying the price.," 6 July 2020 Each public sign is a distillation of human psychology, cultural anthropology, urban design, user design principles, and graphic design, on top of the politics of its constituents. — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, "The sophisticated design behind a simple coronavirus sign," 3 June 2020 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

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cultural anthropology

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Medical 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