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department of anthropology

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.