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"Anthropologist" in a Sentence (13 examples)
To my surprise, the anthropologist was accused of murder.
The anthropologist says odd customs do persist in the region.
The anthropologist delivered a lecture on primitive cultures.
The anthropologist says old customs still prevail in the province.
The American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that one should never underestimate what a small group of dedicated people can accomplish.
The anthropologist is piecing together pottery shards she unearthed at the excavation site.
Barack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist.
An anthropologist wrongly applied the word "Semitic" not just to languages like Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew but specifically to ethnically and culturally Jewish people. More ominously, from 1880 through the Nazi period of German history, racists extended the word "Aryan," which had meant the Sanskrit-Persian language family, to deliberately foster the vile and discredited theory of a so-called Aryan race.
Mouloud Mammeri, an Algerian author and anthropologist, was a man of extraordinary energy and productivity.
Tom is an anthropologist.
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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.
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