How to Use anthropology in a Sentence

anthropology

noun

• That may represent the future, but the past is just a short walk across campus in the stacks of the anthropology library.
  — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• The pivotal step is to validate the true needs of customers through a design anthropology study.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The idea was to invert anthropology’s othering gaze through a focus on the local and the banal.
  — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
• Jantz adds that forensic anthropology has jumped ahead by leaps and bounds in the decades since Hoodless analyzed the bones.
  — Jared Gilmour, kansascity, 7 Mar. 2018
• Franz Boas is a towering figure in the world of anthropology.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Each was a triumph, and they still are recognized as such, icons of a genre, touchstones of both anthropology and film.
  — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• The dish represents both a fascinating facet of food anthropology and a link to our ancestors.
  — Vaughn Stafford Gray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2020
• At a time when anthropology was generally viewed as a study of the other, Hurston immersed herself in the lives of her own people.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• Take anthropology, a discipline that emerged as part and parcel of the Western colonial project.
  — Elena Maris, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
• Martin puts her background in anthropology to use in this sometimes vicious study of the women of the UES.
  — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
• The other closures have not drawn the intense opposition that the anthropology library shutdown has.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Call it passion, call it cultural anthropology, call it plain old gluttony: The food of a place can speak of its soul when even words fail.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2016
• Both are housed in red-brick buildings that hearken to a time when anthropology was a fledgling academic discipline.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
• The awakening was driven in part by advances in forensic anthropology.
  — Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Gadde toyed with the idea of studying archaeology and anthropology in college, until her parents talked her out of it.
  — Graham Hacia, Wired, 9 Sep. 2020
• Topics include neuroscience of taste, beer anthropology and the science of cocktail pairing and more.
  — Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2017
• Jantz blames Hoodless' error on the undeveloped state of forensic anthropology at the time.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• The field of anthropology, which thrived in the last century, has deteriorated in recent years; this is a loss.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• But anthropology’s record of cross-cultural exchange deserves to be dusted off and put on display.
  — James Panero, WSJ, 29 May 2019
• For a group project in my medical anthropology class, my classmates and I performed a birthing scene on the professor’s large wooden desk.
  — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• Van Gennep’s observations were a landmark in the nascent field of anthropology.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
• But this bit of craft wisdom—conflict is king—is the handmaiden of a paranoid anthropology, and a limited way of thinking about action and speech.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• An answer has emerged from an exciting new field of science: forensic anthropology.
  — Mike Fillon, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2015
• Alyssa Quinn’s book delves into anthropology, history and how language came to be.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
• Her department no longer requires anthropology majors to attend a summer field school.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
• But make no mistake: her pursuit of anthropology was not the result of an intellectual passion, or any kind of passion.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• At the time, there were no departments of anthropology in colleges or universities, no degrees to be earned, no clear routes to building a career.
  — Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• The project is part of the growing field of forensic facial reconstruction, which combines science, art and anthropology to help solve crimes or mass disasters.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Mar. 2018
• Schooled in anthropology, Lee works for the Hartman Group, a consulting firm.
  — Photographs By Brian Finke Text By Malia Wollan, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2016
• Which is why the anarchist writer David Graeber, who died last year, was the black sheep of academic anthropology.
  — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024