Definitions of ethnologist
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an anthropologist who studies ethnology
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examples:
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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)
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
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type of:
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anthropologist
a social scientist who specializes in anthropology
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Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen
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