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ANTHROPOLOGIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A social scientist who specializes in anthropology
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("anthropologist" is a kind of...):
social scientist (someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anthropologist"):
archaeologist; archeologist (an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture)
ethnographer (an anthropologist who does ethnography)
ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)
cultural anthropologist; social anthropologist (an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems)
Instance hyponyms:
Edward Sapir; Sapir (anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939))
Lewis Henry Morgan; Morgan (United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881))
Ashley Montagu; Montagu (United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-))
Margaret Mead; Mead (United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978))
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski; Bronislaw Malinowski; Malinowski (British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884-1942))
Claude Levi-Strauss; Levi-Strauss (French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908))
Leakey; Richard Erskine Leakey; Richard Leakey (English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944))
Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey; Mary Leakey (English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996))
Leakey; Louis Leakey; Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972))
Alfred Kroeber; Alfred Louis Kroeber; Kroeber (United States anthropologist noted for his studies of culture (1876-1960))
Heyerdahl; Thor Hyerdahl (Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002))
Frazer; James George Frazer; Sir James George Frazer (English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941))
Broca; Pierre-Paul Broca (French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880))
Brinton; Daniel Garrison Brinton (United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899))
Benedict; Ruth Benedict; Ruth Fulton (United States anthropologist (1887-1948))
Derivation:
anthropology (the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings)
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