anthropologist

[ an-thruh-pol-uh-jist ]

noun

1. a person who specializes in anthropology.

Word History and Origins

Origin of anthropologist¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

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

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

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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