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anthropologist

[ an-thruh-pol-uh-jist ]

noun

  1. a person who specializes in anthropology.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of anthropologist1

First recorded in 1790–1800; anthropolog(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

She’s an anthropologist — someone who studies different societies and cultures.

He is an economic anthropologist in the University of London system.

She is a biological anthropologist at Utah State University in Logan.

That’s Helen Schwartzman, an anthropologist at Northwestern University.

That is Jen Sandler, another anthropologist who studies meetings.

“Oil palms are very lucrative, very quickly,” said Lisa Curran, an anthropologist and conservation expert at Stanford University.

As Allen Young, a medical anthropologist wrote, “PTSD is a disease of time.”

The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss saw the Amazon rainforest, as he saw most things, as a complex structure.

The remains will go next to the University of Wisconsin for an anthropologist and odontologist to inspect.

But shortly into the term, an anthropologist guest lecturer called the Roma a dirty and culture-less people.

What anthropologist accepts the theory of Aryan overland immigration from somewhere in Asia?

It is therefore of the highest interest to the Anthropologist and the Comparative Anatomist.

The philologist reveals the genealogies of words even as the anthropologist studies the genealogies of races.

It depends entirely—to use the pedantic jargon of the anthropologist—on the “cephalic index” of the race.

The problems which the anthropologist and ethnologist attack are indeed of the highest degree of complexity.

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