cultural anthropology

1. 1.

   the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society

   Synonymssocial anthropology

   Broaderanthropology

   Narrowergarbologymythologyritualism

Questions about cultural anthropology

What does cultural anthropology mean?

cultural anthropology means "the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society".

What is another word for cultural anthropology?

Close synonyms include social anthropology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cultural anthropology a common word?

cultural anthropology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.