Meanings
plural social anthropologists
- An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.
1 more example
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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