WordNet
n. the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology [syn: anthropology department]
Usage examples of "department of anthropology".
Peter Elliot was a twenty-three-year-old graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley when he first read about a year-old gorilla with amoebic dysentery who had been brought from the Minneapolis zoo to the San Francisco School of Veterinary Medicine for treatment.
Jerry had been unable to explain what a Department of Anthropology was.
Freeborn of the department of anthropology - together with my son Wingate - accompanied me.
Freeborn of the department of anthropology--together with my son Wingate--accompanied me.
And when I went to the University of Chicago, and I heard the head of the Department of Anthropology, Robert Redfield, lecture on the folk society, which was essentially a stable, isolated extended family, he did not have to tell me how nice that could be.