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ritualist

DEFINITIONS OF: ritualist

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n a social anthropologist who is expert on rites and ceremonies

Type of:
cultural anthropologist, social anthropologist
an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems

n an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms

Type of:
advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
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