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anthropologist

[ an-thruh-pol-uh-jist ]

noun

  1. a person who specializes in anthropology.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of anthropologist1

First recorded in 1790–1800; anthropolog(y) + -ist
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Example Sentences

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According to one anecdote, an anthropologist questioned a local chief on the implausibility of Frum’s return.

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“This is likely to hurt people,” said Dr. Timothy Hall, a psychiatrist and anthropologist specializing in HIV and addiction at UCLA.

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Dr. Robert Mann, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, has examined somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 human skulls and skeletons over a storied career, mostly focusing on modern remains.

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Thurka Sangaramoorthy, an American University anthropologist who has studied immigrant workers, said that all workers have the right to report unsafe working conditions, regardless of immigration status.

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She also married a man of her choosing, swam in a bathing suit, drove a scooter and even dared to defy a racist hypothesis of her doctorate supervisor - a famous German anthropologist named Eugen Fischer.

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