Definition of Social anthropology

1. Noun. The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society.

Exact synonyms: Cultural Anthropology
Generic synonyms: Anthropology
Specialized synonyms: Garbology, Mythology, Ritualism
Derivative terms: Cultural Anthropologist, Social Anthropologist

Definition of Social anthropology

1. Noun. cultural anthropology ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Social Anthropology

sociableness
sociablenesses
sociables
social-psychology
social-science
social Darwinism
social action
social activity
social adaptation
social adjustment
social affair
social alienation
social anthropologist
social anthropology (current term)
social behaviour
social behaviour disorders
social bookmarking
social capital
social change
social climber
social climbers
social cohesion
social collaboration

Literary usage of Social anthropology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Development Cooperation by Edward T. Jackson, Yusuf Kassam (1998)
"In Other Sites: social anthropology and the Politics of Interpretation, ... "Engagement and Detachment: Reflections on Applying social anthropology to ..."

2. Psychology and Folk-lore by Robert Ranulph Marett (1920)
"At Oxford we term this branch of the subject social anthropology, ... It remains to add that no training in social anthropology can be regarded as complete ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed professor of social anthropology at the University of Liverpool in 1907. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"He became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was appointed professor of social anthropology at the University of Liverpool in 1907. ..."

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