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anthropologist

Noun

A social scientist who specializes in anthropology (synset 109815764)
is a type of: social scientist - someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships
subtypes:
- archaeologist, archeologist - an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture
- ethnographer - an anthropologist who does ethnography
- ethnologist - an anthropologist who studies ethnology
- cultural anthropologist, social anthropologist - an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems
specific instances:
- benedict, ruth benedict, ruth fulton - United States anthropologist (1887-1948)
- 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 people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
- frazer, james george frazer, sir james george frazer - English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
- heyerdahl, thor hyerdahl - Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002)
- alfred kroeber, alfred louis kroeber, kroeber - United States anthropologist noted for his 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 douglas leakey, mary leakey - English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
- leakey, richard erskine leakey, richard leakey - English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
- claude levi-strauss, levi-strauss - French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908)
- bronislaw kasper malinowski, bronislaw malinowski, malinowski - British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the technique of the participant observer (1884-1942)
- margaret mead, mead - United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
- ashley montagu, montagu - United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-)
- lewis henry morgan, morgan - United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
- edward sapir, sapir - anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939)

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