anthropologist
English Thesaurus
1. a social scientist who specializes in anthropology (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | social scientist, |
| definition | : | someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | archaeologist, archeologist, |
| definition | : | an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ethnographer, |
| definition | : | an anthropologist who does ethnography (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | ethnologist, |
| definition | : | an anthropologist who studies ethnology (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | brinton, daniel garrison brinton, |
| definition | : | United States anthropologist who was the first to attempt a systematic classification of Native American languages (1837-1899) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | broca, pierre-paul broca, |
| definition | : | French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | heyerdahl, thor hyerdahl, |
| definition | : | Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | leakey, mary douglas leakey, mary leakey, |
| definition | : | English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | leakey, richard erskine leakey, richard leakey, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | claude levi-strauss, levi-strauss, |
| definition | : | French cultural anthropologist who promoted structural analysis of social systems (born in 1908) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | margaret mead, mead, |
| definition | : | United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | ashley montagu, montagu, |
| definition | : | United States anthropologist (born in England) who popularized anthropology (1905-) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lewis henry morgan, morgan, |
| definition | : | United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | edward sapir, sapir, |
| definition | : | anthropologist and linguist; studied languages of North American Indians (1884-1939) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | anthropology, |
| definition | : | the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | anthropology, |
| definition | : | the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings (noun.cognition) |
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