ethnologist

[eth-nah-luhj-ist]

noun

1. a person who studies ethnology.

Example Sentences

He toured Los Angeles with his Harvard classmate, the ethnologist and writer Charles Lummis, and admired the natural beauty enrobing the city.

From Los Angeles Times

The French critic Serge Daney called him “an ethnologist of his own reality,” adding that Eustache gave a face to the “lost children” of May ’68: “Without him, nothing would have remained of them.”

From New York Times

“It’s not just a film about the genocide,” Kraume said, “but also about ethnologists who want to explore foreign cultures, but destroy them.”

From New York Times

In “Giraffe,” an ethnologist is tasked with inventorying an abandoned cottage in the Danish countryside: books, photos, journals.

From New York Times

While Ernaux writes explicitly and vividly about herself, she does so as “an ethnologist of myself,” as she has put it.

From Washington Post