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cultural anthropologist

American  
[kuhl-cher-uhl an-thruh-pah-luhj-ist] / ˈkʌl tʃər əl ˌæn θrəˈpɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

cultural anthropologists plural
  1. a specialist or student in cultural anthropology.


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Each role provided him the opportunity to touch people’s lives and embrace their mutual humanity, an ambition that sprang from his studies as a cultural anthropologist, according to those who knew him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2023

Since written histories that reference menstruation are so limited, oral histories are some of the only sources available, such as accounts from Indigenous communities, says Alma Gottlieb, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Illinois.

From National Geographic • Nov. 29, 2023

Before her detention, Dawut had been a professor at Xinjiang University College of Humanities, as well as a leading cultural anthropologist and ethnographer of Uyghur folklore.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

Last summer, sick of staying indoors with the windows shut, Ms. Stern, a former cultural anthropologist, visited the cooler mountains for a reprieve.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker published his germinal text "The Denial of Death" in 1973.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2022

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