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noun
The study of human bodies; anatomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: structuralism
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Broader terms: theory
History
From structural + anthropology, in later sense after French anthropologie structurale.
