How to Use anthropology in a Sentence

anthropology

noun

• 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
• 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
• Gadde toyed with the idea of studying archaeology and anthropology in college, until her parents talked her out of it.
  — Graham Hacia, Wired, 9 Sep. 2020
• Van Gennep’s observations were a landmark in the nascent field of anthropology.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
• Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, a free for all existed in the fields of anthropology, archaeology and Native art.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024