English > anthropologist: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A social scientist who specializes in anthropology. |
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| Instances | Benedict, Ruth Benedict, Ruth Fulton | United States anthropologist (1887-1948) |
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| Brinton, Daniel Garrison Brinton | United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899) |
| Broca, Pierre-Paul Broca | French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people |
| Frazer, James George Frazer, Sir James George Frazer | English social anthropologist noted for studies / studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941) |
| Heyerdahl, Thor Hyerdahl | Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies / studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002) |
| Kroeber, Alfred Kroeber, Alfred Louis Kroeber | United States anthropologist noted for his studies / studies of culture (1876-1960) |
| Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey | English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972) |
| Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas Leakey | English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) |
| Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey | English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss | French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908) |
| Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski | British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884-1942) |
| Mead, Margaret Mead | United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978) |
| Montagu, Ashley Montagu | United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-) |
| Morgan, Lewis Henry Morgan | United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca / Seneca (1818-1881) |
| Sapir, Edward Sapir | anthropologist and linguist |
| Narrower | archeologist, archaeologist | An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture |
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| ethnographer | An anthropologist who does ethnography |
| ethnologist | An anthropologist who studies ethnology |
| social anthropologist, cultural anthropologist | An anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems |
| Broader | social scientist | someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships |
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| Spanish | antropóloga, antropologo, antropólogo |
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| Catalan | antropòleg |
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| Nouns | anthropology | the social science that studies the origins / origins and social relationships of human beings |
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