CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Meaning:

The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society

Synonyms:

cultural anthropology; social anthropology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cultural anthropology" is a kind of...):

anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cultural anthropology"):

garbology (the study of a society by analyzing its garbage)

mythology (the study of myths)

ritualism (the study of religious or magical rites and ceremonies)

Derivation:

cultural anthropologist (an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems)