anthropologist

From anthropology +‎ -ist.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

anthropologist (plural anthropologists)

1. An expert in anthropology.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

     In actual fact, it is hard to see how anyone could defend the prescriptive approach. In any other field of enquiry, it would be seen as patently absurd. What would we say of the social anthropologist who, instead of describing the way a given society is, sets about prescribing the way he thinks it ought to be? (We'd probably suggest he ought to give up Anthropology and take up Politics!) [...]

   • 2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In traditional anthropology, somebody goes to another country, says: “How fascinating these people are! How interesting their tools and their culture are,” and then they write a paper, and maybe a few other anthropologists read it, and we think these cultures are very exotic.

   • 2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.