anthropologist

English

Etymology

From anthropology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

anthropologist (plural anthropologists)

1. An expert in anthropology.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

     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!) [...]

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

one who is versed in anthropology

• Armenian: մարդաբան (hy) (mardaban)
• Belarusian: антрапо́лаг m (antrapólah)
• Bulgarian: антрополо́г m (antropológ)
• Catalan: antropòleg m, antropòloga f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人類學家／人类学家 (zh) (rénlèixuéjiā)

• Czech: antropolog (cs) m, antropoložka (cs) f
• Danish: antropolog c
• Dutch: antropoloog (nl) m, antropologe (nl) f
• Esperanto: antropologo, antropologino (female)
• Faroese: mannfrøðingur m
• Finnish: antropologi (fi)
• French: anthropologue (fr) m or f
• Galician: antropólogo m, antropóloga f
• German: Anthropologe (de) m, Anthropologin (de) f
• Hungarian: antropológus (hu)
• Icelandic: mannfræðingur m
• Ido: antropologo, antropologisto
• Indonesian: antropolog (id)
• Irish: antraipeolaí m
• Italian: antropologo (it) m
• Japanese: 人類学者 (じんるいがくしゃ, jinruigakusha)
• Latvian: antropologs m, antropoloģe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antropolog m

  Nynorsk: antropolog (nn) m

• Polish: antropolog (pl) m or f, antropolożka f
• Portuguese: antropólogo (pt) m, antropóloga f
• Romanian: antropolog (ro) m, antropologă f
• Russian: антропо́лог (ru) m (antropólog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антропо̀лог m

  Roman: antropòlog (sh) m

• Slovak: antropológ (sk) m, antropologička (sk) f
• Spanish: antropólogo (es) m, antropóloga f
• Swedish: antropolog (sv) c
• Turkish: antropolog (tr), insan bilimci (tr)
• Ukrainian: антропо́лог (uk) m (antropóloh)