anthropologist
[an-thruh-pol-uh-jist]
- a person who specializes in anthropology.
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Origin of anthropologist
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Examples from the Web for anthropologist
Contemporary Examples
“Oil palms are very lucrative, very quickly,” said Lisa Curran, an anthropologist and conservation expert at Stanford University.
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.
American Gypsies Are a Persecuted Minority That Is Starting to Fight BackNina Strochlic
December 22, 2013
The anthropologist in Khost, Michael Bhatia, died in a roadside bomb attack on May 7, 2008, aged 31.
Historical Examples
I am not a proper archæologist nor an anthropologist nor an ethnologist.
Fantasia of the UnconsciousD. H. Lawrence
Nevertheless, the anthropologist may do so, if he be prepared to take the risk.
Progress and HistoryVarious
Anthropologist as he was, he had suspected this from the start.
Lost in the Wilds of BrazilJames H. Foster
Apparently the anthropologist and the manservant had retired.
The Gray Phantom's ReturnHerman Landon
Which reminds me, added the anthropologist, that you are again a hunted man.
The Gray Phantom's ReturnHerman Landon
Word Origin and History for anthropologist
n.
1798, from anthropology + -ist.
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