anthropologist
Studies human societies
An anthropologist is a scholar who studies human societies, cultures, and their development.
Anthropologists examine everything from ancient bones to contemporary rituals, asking what makes us human and how we vary across time and place.
The anthropologist spent two years living with the community she was studying.
Systematic study of peoples
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- kinshipState of being related
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
customs · traditions · beliefs · folklore · mythology · taboos · ceremonies · heritage
Systematic fact-finding effort
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- professorSenior university teacher
PhD · university · academia · ethnography · monograph · journal · fellowship · grant
State of being related
- marriageFormal union between partners
- familyRelated people together
- communityCollective of connected people
- casteInherited social division
class · stratification · gender · identity · socialization · networks · reciprocity · exchange
Species changing over generations
- primatesOrder of higher mammals
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- paleoanthropologyScience of ancestral human remains
- bipedalismWalking on two limbs
hominid · morphology · genetics · adaptation · skeletal · cranial · Leakey · Goodall
Act of unearthing
- digUnearth by shoveling
- siteDesignated location
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
ruins · stratigraphy · pottery · tools · bones · dating · survey · mapping
System of symbolic communication
- dialectRegional language variety
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
discourse · documentation · transcription · sociolinguistics · pidgin · creole · code-switching · grammar
ethnography
Systematic study of peoples
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- kinshipState of being related
rituals · customs · traditions · beliefs · folklore · mythology · taboos · ceremonies · heritage · symbolism
research
Systematic fact-finding effort
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
professor · PhD · university · academia · ethnography · monograph · journal · fellowship · grant · tenure
kinship
State of being related
- marriageFormal union between partners
- familyRelated people together
- communityCollective of connected people
caste · class · stratification · gender · identity · socialization · networks · reciprocity · exchange · power
evolution
Species changing over generations
- primatesOrder of higher mammals
- fossilsPreserved ancient organism traces
- paleoanthropologyScience of ancestral human remains
bipedalism · hominid · morphology · genetics · adaptation · skeletal · cranial · Leakey · Goodall · osteology
excavation
Act of unearthing
relics · ruins · stratigraphy · pottery · tools · bones · dating · survey · mapping · unearthing
language
System of symbolic communication
semantics · discourse · documentation · transcription · sociolinguistics · pidgin · creole · code-switching · grammar · lexicon
- scientistsbiologist, Einstein, Darwin, chemist, archaeologist
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- cultural scholarsethnographer, ethnologist, folklorist, cultural critic, ethnomusicologist
- humanities careershistorian, philosopher, linguist, archaeologist, classicist
- researchersfield researcher, market researcher, ethnographer, sociologist, psychologist
- social scientistssociologist, psychologist, economist, political scientist, social psychologist
anthropologistphysicist
Scientist of matter and energy
chemist · astronomer · geologist · botanist · mathematician
anthropologisthistorian
Expert on past events
archaeologist · paleontologist · archivist · classicist · medievalist
- forensic anthropologistAnalyzes human remains for investigations