Anthropologist

Definitions

An expert in anthropology.

Equivalents

Examples

“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!) [...]”

“In traditional anthropology, somebody goes to another country, says: “How fascinating these people are! How interesting their tools and their culture are,” and then they write⟳ a paper, and maybe a few other anthropologists read⟳ it, and we think⟳ these cultures are very exotic.”

“But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race⟳, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.”

CEFR level