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ethnologist

DEFINITIONS OF: ethnologist

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n an anthropologist who studies ethnology

Examples:
Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen
Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
Type of:
anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
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