Anil is an anthropologist who studies how words transmitted via social media have been used both to resist and to uphold power during recent revolutionary periods in libya, egypt, and the sudan. anil would most likely classify himself as a(n)
He would be considered a linguistic anthropologist. This subset looks at how words and communication are used among peoples and cultures as a way of describing the world and the culture's own differing viewpoints. This allows people to be able to see how a similar concept can be seen differently by people from different parts of the world.