anthropologist

[ an-thruh-pol-uh-jist ]

/ ˌæn θrəˈpɒl ə dʒɪst /

a person who specializes in anthropology.

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

“Oil palms are very lucrative, very quickly,” said Lisa Curran, an anthropologist and conservation expert at Stanford University.
Our Taste for Cheap Palm Oil Is Killing Chimpanzees|Carrie Arnold|July 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss saw the Amazon rainforest, as he saw most things, as a complex structure.
Exploring the Amazon, While We Still Can|Darrell Hartman|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The remains will go next to the University of Wisconsin for an anthropologist and odontologist to inspect.
The WWII Hero America Abandoned|Megan McCloskey, ProPublica|March 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 Back|Nina Strochlic|December 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The anthropologist in Khost, Michael Bhatia, died in a roadside bomb attack on May 7, 2008, aged 31.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too?|John Kael Weston|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What shade of meaning do you attach to the word ‘anthropologist’ as used by you, Professor?
How to Become Rich|William Windsor
But there is hardly an anatomist or an anthropologist who has not had his say upon this regrettably very incomplete remnant.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
Does he point out that one anthropologist has asked for caution in weighing what the Mincopies told Mr. Man?
Modern Mythology|Andrew Lang
It is therefore of the highest interest to the Anthropologist and the Comparative Anatomist.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves
This scholar and anthropologist lived with the Crow Indians to obtain intimate knowledge and then wrote this authoritative book.
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest|J. Frank Dobie