anthropologist

American  

[an-thruh-pol-uh-jist] / ˌæn θrəˈpɒl ə dʒɪst /

noun

1. a person who specializes in anthropology.

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Etymology

Origin of anthropologist

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Science Daily

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal

If fear of the undead is a human universal, is it a consequence of common cognition, as some psychologists suggest, or cultural transmission, as anthropologists might prefer?

From The Wall Street Journal