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

I’m a cultural anthropologist, and what we do is field work.

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For historians, anthropologists, and marine archaeologists, the most important use of side-scan sonar is in the location and excavation of shipwrecks.

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Chip Colwell, an anthropologist and the author of “So Much Stuff,” a history of consumerism, thinks that tariffs will cause people to buy less in the short term.

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The group included anthropologists, geneticists, an archaeologist, an archaeobotanist, stable isotope specialists, radiocarbon experts, and dentists.

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At age 25, Birutė Galdikas, the Canadian anthropologist, was wading through swamps riddled with parasites and leeches trying to catch a glimpse of orangutans, or, as she describes them, “survivors of Eden.”

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