antropólogo

Definitions of antropólogo
  1. noun
    a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
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    examples:
    Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
    English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
    Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
    English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
    Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey
    English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
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    arqueólogo
    an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture
    etnógrafo
    an anthropologist who does ethnography
    etnólogo
    an anthropologist who studies ethnology
    antropólogo social
    an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems
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