How to Use anthropology in a Sentence

anthropology

noun
  • Each was a triumph, and they still are recognized as such, icons of a genre, touchstones of both anthropology and film.
    — Sean Flynn, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • That may represent the future, but the past is just a short walk across campus in the stacks of the anthropology library.
    — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
  • The pivotal step is to validate the true needs of customers through a design anthropology study.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Jantz adds that forensic anthropology has jumped ahead by leaps and bounds in the decades since Hoodless analyzed the bones.
    — Jared Gilmour, kansascity, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Franz Boas is a towering figure in the world of anthropology.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The idea was to invert anthropology’s othering gaze through a focus on the local and the banal.
    — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • And all of them ended up going to college and majoring in anthropology.
    — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • The time for market research to leverage anthropology is both now and tomorrow.
    — Autumn McDonald, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • These films were anthropologies of American aspiration in an age when the old myths were breaking down.
    — arkansasonline.com, 10 July 2025
  • Both are housed in red-brick buildings that hearken to a time when anthropology was a fledgling academic discipline.
    — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Take anthropology, a discipline that emerged as part and parcel of the Western colonial project.
    — Elena Maris, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The dish represents both a fascinating facet of food anthropology and a link to our ancestors.
    — Vaughn Stafford Gray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Gadde toyed with the idea of studying archaeology and anthropology in college, until her parents talked her out of it.
    — Graham Hacia, Wired, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Especially one as large as the Met, where aesthetics and anthropology often go hand in hand?
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • Rousseau’s first writings present an anthropology that, in essence, prevails on the cultural Left today.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Maya, an anthropology student, shared that their look was also thrifted, aside from their top, which their partner made for her for the event specifically.
    — Glenys Johnson, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • At a time when anthropology was generally viewed as a study of the other, Hurston immersed herself in the lives of her own people.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The field of anthropology, which thrived in the last century, has deteriorated in recent years; this is a loss.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • For a group project in my medical anthropology class, my classmates and I performed a birthing scene on the professor’s large wooden desk.
    — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Gervais turned to anthropology to offer an explanation for the rise of cancel culture.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But this bit of craft wisdom—conflict is king—is the handmaiden of a paranoid anthropology, and a limited way of thinking about action and speech.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • Schooled in anthropology, Lee works for the Hartman Group, a consulting firm.
    — Photographs By Brian Finke Text By Malia Wollan, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2016
  • At the time, there were no departments of anthropology in colleges or universities, no degrees to be earned, no clear routes to building a career.
    — Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Martin puts her background in anthropology to use in this sometimes vicious study of the women of the UES.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • Jantz blames Hoodless' error on the undeveloped state of forensic anthropology at the time.
    — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Their sudden exit from the fossil record has remained one of anthropology’s most enduring enigmas, until now.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Which is why the anarchist writer David Graeber, who died last year, was the black sheep of academic anthropology.
    — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Moral panics are recurring themes in my research on the anthropology of fear and discrimination.
    — Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Among the people trapped in those suburbs was a graduate student in anthropology named Evheny Osievsky.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Her mother worked for an anthropology museum.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026

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