How to Use anthropology in a Sentence

anthropology

noun
Definition of anthropologynext
  • 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
  • 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
  • Martin puts her background in anthropology to use in this sometimes vicious study of the women of the UES.
    — Washington Post, 15 July 2021
  • 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
  • Call it passion, call it cultural anthropology, call it plain old gluttony: The food of a place can speak of its soul when even words fail.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • The pivotal step is to validate the true needs of customers through a design anthropology study.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Franz Boas is a towering figure in the world of anthropology.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Take anthropology, a discipline that emerged as part and parcel of the Western colonial project.
    — Elena Maris, Wired, 12 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • According to the Post, Alexander was leaving his Afro-beats dance practice and had an anthropology thesis project on his mind.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 15 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • But now Ryan, a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, was worried the time to put pen to paper would never come.
    — Siri Chilukuri, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The university, which leases the land from the state, is organizing the work through its anthropology department and with the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The time for market research to leverage anthropology is both now and tomorrow.
    — Autumn McDonald, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • For Regina Huang, transporting her life from China to the Netherlands for an anthropology degree was a no-brainer.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The remains were stored on campus until after the professor’s death in 2014, when they were transferred to the anthropology department.
    — Michael Hill, ajc, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Rousseau’s first writings present an anthropology that, in essence, prevails on the cultural Left today.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • And all of them ended up going to college and majoring in anthropology.
    — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • Jantz blames Hoodless' error on the undeveloped state of forensic anthropology at the time.
    — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Alyssa Quinn’s book delves into anthropology, history and how language came to be.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • James Blair, associate professor of geography and anthropology at Cal Poly Pomona, questioned whether the area was the right place for a mammoth data center.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
  • When Rose’s skull and nearby bone fragments were sent to a Chico State anthropology lab for investigation in 1985, no cause of death or identification could be determined due to the state of her remains.
    — Megan Vaz, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024

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