Definition of anthropological in English:
anthropological
adjective ˌanθrəpəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)lˌænθrəpəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l
Relating to the study of humankind.
an anthropological expedition to Borneo
Example sentencesExamples
- His book offers an anthropological account of rituals of exchange in a number of communities.
- His vision is essentially social, even anthropological.
- These anthropological studies highlight the modalities of power in force at moments of gift exchange.
- Another equally important anthropological question is how biological distinctions are made symbolically and socially meaningful.
- Their approach is essentially anthropological and descriptive, focusing on the experience of paid work in modem Britain.
- She was a commercially successful choreographer and anthropological researcher of Caribbean dance.
- His 1648 discovery of Avebury Ring set him off on a lifetime of anthropological studies.
- She seems more enamored of her stock hero and his inamorata than of the cultural, anthropological pursuits of her protagonist.
- He constructed a number of exotic sounds, reflecting ceremonial practice, and interwove them with anthropological narration.
- He evidently has a thoroughly anthropological idea of art.
Derivatives
adverb
The French were not a single race either ethnically or anthropologically.
Example sentencesExamples
- To do that job, you need to be mentally disturbed, anthropologically different from the rest of humanity.
- Future anthropologically oriented research should study why patients comply in the first place.
- The anthropologically derived questions are designed to elicit information about each of the six dimensions, providing a holistic spiritual assessment.
- This ethnic dichotomy is historically and anthropologically bogus.
Definition of anthropological in US English:
anthropological
adjectiveˌanTHrəpəˈläjək(ə)lˌænθrəpəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l
Relating to the study of humankind.
an anthropological expedition to Borneo
Example sentencesExamples
- Their approach is essentially anthropological and descriptive, focusing on the experience of paid work in modem Britain.
- He constructed a number of exotic sounds, reflecting ceremonial practice, and interwove them with anthropological narration.
- His 1648 discovery of Avebury Ring set him off on a lifetime of anthropological studies.
- These anthropological studies highlight the modalities of power in force at moments of gift exchange.
- He evidently has a thoroughly anthropological idea of art.
- His vision is essentially social, even anthropological.
- Another equally important anthropological question is how biological distinctions are made symbolically and socially meaningful.
- His book offers an anthropological account of rituals of exchange in a number of communities.
- She was a commercially successful choreographer and anthropological researcher of Caribbean dance.
- She seems more enamored of her stock hero and his inamorata than of the cultural, anthropological pursuits of her protagonist.