An anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "social anthropologist" in a sentence
"Much as had been the case a half-century earlier with Lora Little and her followers, the battle over the fluoridation of public drinking water became, in the words of the social anthropologist Arnold Green, a “surrogate issue” for burgeoning social anxieties about modernity and the leveling effects of faceless bureaucracies in the 1950s."