anthropologistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌæn.θrəˈpɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us/ˌæn.θrəˈpɑː.lə.dʒɪst/someone who scientifically studies humans and their customs, beliefs, and relationships
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Lifestyles & their study
- anthropogenic
- anthropology
- cultural
- culture
- demographer
- demographics
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- lifestyle
- living
- lot
- meme
- milieu
- suburbia
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernize
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Examples from literature
- But as anthropologists we must try, what is so much harder, to be candid about ourselves.
- Remember that the anthropologist is trying to be the historian of long perspective.
- The religious man has to be a man of the world, a man of the wider world, an anthropologist.
- There is a real danger lest the anthropologist should think that a scientific view of man is to be obtained by leaving out the human nature in him.
- They have, indeed, been studying not botany but ethnology, searching for traces of that species of primitive man known to anthropologists as the Hun.
- Yet to a pathologist, or anthropologist, the survivals of beliefs must always be curious and attractive illustrations of human nature.