How to Use cultural anthropology in a Sentence

cultural anthropology

noun
  • His quest for a scientific cultural anthropology is a difficult one, a herculean task.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
  • Instead, take a tip from cultural anthropology and look at employee behaviors as a measure of engagement.
    — Lindsay Kohler, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Her extensive background in cultural anthropology and global health informed the essence of her high-quality candles, carefully crafted to burn evenly with no residue.
    — Meghan Mahar, Billboard, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The next months not only profoundly altered his life and values but, ultimately, helped redefine the very meaning and practice of cultural anthropology.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The Field Museum’s new exhibit skips myths and misconceptions in favor of a rich cultural anthropology case study.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • And cultural anthropology, with its insistence on the many varieties of cultures, was committed to noting the sheer diversity of mythologies.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • But this represents another progressive step for the low-key museum, which specializes in cultural anthropology.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • His work drew on social psychology, cultural anthropology and Freudian psychoanalysis, and bridged the worlds of business and academia.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Taylor, who was born in 1958, studied journalism and cultural anthropology in college.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Obviously these problems are also rife in cultural anthropology.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
  • As cultural anthropology would tell us the Andaman Islanders diverged from mainland South Asians well before agriculture.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
  • New departments of sociology and cultural anthropology kept their eye on the societal side of health, while the nation’s first schools of public health focused instead on fights between germs and individuals.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Her background in photography and cultural anthropology serves as the foundation for her pursuit of quality, diverse, and inclusive storytelling.
    — Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Boas was, by then, renowned as the father of American cultural anthropology and the scholar who taught generations how to think about human diversity without hierarchy.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020
  • Both books are filled with stories like that of Josh Sucher, a Bard graduate who translated lessons from cultural anthropology into market research for Etsy.
    — Michael S. Roth, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Her music freely jumps borders and genres, as befits a University of Minnesota graduate who majored in both classical voice and cultural anthropology.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Harris Solomon is an associate professor of cultural anthropology and global health at Duke University.
    — Harris Solomon, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Each public sign is a distillation of human psychology, cultural anthropology, urban design, user design principles, and graphic design, on top of the politics of its constituents.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 3 June 2020
  • Margaret began her master’s degree in ethnology and museum ethnography at Oxford and decided to stay and pursue her doctorate in cultural anthropology.
    — M.a.c. Lynch, courant.com, 10 June 2018
  • But to squeeze a diverse set of practices that span cultural anthropology, paleobotany, and theoretical physics into a handful of steps is an inevitable distortion and, to be blunt, displays a serious poverty of imagination.
    — Daniel P. Thurs, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • Jacobs graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in art history and holds a master of social science in cultural anthropology and history from the University of Colorado.
    — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • But more profound promises of genome sequencing have been accumulating stealthily in recent years, in fields from personal health to cultural anthropology to environmental monitoring.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ward went on to earn a doctorate in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then moved into finance.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In fact, they're affiliated with a group which attempts to introduce more precise formalism into cultural anthropology, presumably to sketch out more robustly the general patterns which do occur in human societies.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2013
  • Tracie Canada is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.
    — Tracie Canada, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Though cultural anthropology now often espouses social justice aims, there are no guarantees that an anthropologist (85% of whom are white in the US) would orient or deploy algorithms in a less biased way than, say, a computer scientist.
    — Elena Maris, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
  • O’Foghludha’s spouse, Linda Daniel, serves as Duke’s librarian for cultural anthropology and Native American studies.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Much of cultural anthropology consists of de facto political activism, unintelligible interpretation, or pure ethnographic description and comparison.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2012
  • Your website talks about your path to photography beginning with frustration in your study of cultural anthropology as a student at the University of Houston, specifically portrayals of Native American people as solely historical.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Jacqueline Jackson holds degrees in biology and cultural anthropology as well as a doctorate degree in international educational policy, according to a 2022 social media post from Jesse Jackson.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026

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