Example sentences for: anthropologist

How can you use “anthropologist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Having slipped too far into the sheltered and irrelevant world of academia, anthropologists now strive to make a difference: One anthropologist hired by a slaughterhouse helped explain meatpacker society to factory supervisors.

  • Bourke observed, chronicled, and wrote both as a journalist and anthropologist about the folk medicine practices and the folk foodways of the Rio Grande region.

  • "Organ Watch" has been formed to monitor what UC Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls "modern cannibalism"--the theft of body parts from corpses--which occurs predominantly in impoverished areas around the globe.

  • The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.

  • Others (including anthropologist Clifford Geertz and historian Joan Scott) accuse their colleagues in chemistry and physics of harboring a bias against anyone who questions science's claims to truth.


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