social anthropologist

noun

An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.

Meanings

nounsocial anthropologist (plural social anthropologists)

plural social anthropologists

  1. An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.
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    Now for some rather more human terminology! Nodes can have mothers, daughters, and sisters (though interestingly the corresponding relations are known as fathers, sons, and brothers in Italian; I shall leave it to social anthropologists and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this cross-cultural transvestism may be!).

    1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 113

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems

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