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social_anthropologist

social anthropologist

English

Noun

social anthropologist (plural social anthropologists)

  1. (anthropology) An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 113:
      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 anthro-
      pologists
      and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this
      cross-cultural transvestism may be!). These terms can be defined as follows:
      (7) (a) If one node X immediately dominates another node Y, then X is
          the mother of Y, and Y is the daughter of X
      [...]