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    SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and societyplay

    Synonyms:

    cultural anthropology; social anthropology

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("social 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 "social 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:

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

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