English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
anthropology + -ist
Pronunciation [ edit ]
anthropologist (plural anthropologists )
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 [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
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
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 )