structural anthropology

1. 1.

   an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena

   Synonymsstructuralism

   Broadertheory

   Part ofanthropology

Questions about structural anthropology

What does structural anthropology mean?

structural anthropology means "an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena".

What is another word for structural anthropology?

Close synonyms include structuralism. 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 structural anthropology a common word?

structural 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.