Dictionary

anthropologist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (US)
• /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ (US)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English anthropology Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English anthropologist From anthropology + -ist.

Meanings

1. An expert in anthropology.
   • 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. 2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN:
   • But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College. 2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN:
   • 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!) [...] 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

Forms

Deriveds

bioanthropologist · socioanthropologist · paleoanthropologist · structural anthropologist · nonanthropologist · social anthropologist · palæoanthropologist · anthropologian · cultural anthropologist

Translations (51)

cmn 人類學家 /人类学家 (one who is versed in anthropology) · de Anthropologe (one who is versed in anthropology) · gl antropólogo (one who is versed in anthropology) · fi antropologi (one who is versed in anthropology) · de Anthropologin (one who is versed in anthropology) · es antropólogo (one who is versed in anthropology) · uk антропо́лог (one who is versed in anthropology) · tr antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · lv antropoloģe (one who is versed in anthropology) · nl antropoloog (one who is versed in anthropology) · ro antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · da antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · it antropologo (one who is versed in anthropology) · ca antropòleg (one who is versed in anthropology) · bg антрополо́г (one who is versed in anthropology) · sw mwanaanthropolojia (one who is versed in anthropology) · es antropóloga (one who is versed in anthropology) · be антрапо́лаг (one who is versed in anthropology) · io antropologo (one who is versed in anthropology) · ro antropologă (one who is versed in anthropology) · sk antropológ (one who is versed in anthropology) · io antropologisto (one who is versed in anthropology) · sk antropologička (one who is versed in anthropology) · cs antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · id antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · ja 人類学者 (one who is versed in anthropology) · is mannfræðingur (one who is versed in anthropology) · lv antropologs (one who is versed in anthropology) · sv antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · eo antropologino (one who is versed in anthropology) · tr insan bilimci (one who is versed in anthropology) · ca antropòloga (one who is versed in anthropology) · sh antropòlog (one who is versed in anthropology) · fr anthropologue (one who is versed in anthropology) · nl antropologe (one who is versed in anthropology) · eo antropologo (one who is versed in anthropology) · hu antropológus (one who is versed in anthropology) · gl antropóloga (one who is versed in anthropology) · fo mannfrøðingur (one who is versed in anthropology) · hy մարդաբան (one who is versed in anthropology) · pl antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · sh антропо̀лог (one who is versed in anthropology) · ga antraipeolaí (one who is versed in anthropology) · cs antropoložka (one who is versed in anthropology) · pt antropólogo (one who is versed in anthropology) · nn antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · nb antropolog (one who is versed in anthropology) · ru антропо́лог (one who is versed in anthropology) · af antropoloog (one who is versed in anthropology) · pl antropolożka (one who is versed in anthropology) · pt antropóloga (one who is versed in anthropology)