English Explanatory Dictionary

structural anthropology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The study of human bodies; anatomy.
  2. The study of social structures in human communities; the study of human society according to the theories of structuralism, especially associated with French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Word forms

structural anthropology

Etymology

From structural + anthropology, in later sense after French anthropologie structurale.

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