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cultural anthropology

branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans
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Summary

cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of branch of anthropology entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,178 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3], field of study[4], field of work[5]
  • Subclass of: anthropology[6]
  • Part of: social and cultural anthropology[7]
  • Commons category: Cultural anthropology[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cultural anthropology[9]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Cultural anthropology[10]
  • Different from: social anthropology[11], European ethnology (Volkskunde)[12], ethnology[13]
  • Practiced by: cultural anthropologist[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]

Why It Matters

cultural anthropology has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown Amanda L. L. Cullen anthropology Ashraf Ghani Bronisław Malinowski Claude Lévi-Strauss Clifford Geertz Désirée Remmert E. E. Evans-Pritchard ethnolinguistics ethnology folkloristics Frobenius Institute Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology Johnny Clegg Margaret Mead Pitirim Sorokin Ruth Benedict social anthropology Sophia Goodfriend

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Metzler Lexikon Literatur (3 ed.). wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004434-kulturni-antropologie
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  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged at → —
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    Different from → social anthropology, European ethnology (Volkskunde), ethnology
    Subclass of → anthropology
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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