Structural anthropology

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The study of human bodies; anatomy. archaic, uncountable
  2. 2
    an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena wordnet
  3. 3
    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. uncountable

Etymology

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

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