genealogist

A person who studies or practises genealogy; an expert in genealogy.

نَسَّاب

person who studies or practises genealogy, expert in genealogy


anthropologist

/ˌæn.θɹəˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

In actual fact, it is hard to see how anyone could defend the prescriptive approach. In any other field of enquiry, it would be seen as patently absurd. What would we say of the social anthropologist who, instead of describing the way a given society is, sets about prescribing the way he thinks it ought to be? (We'd probably suggest he ought to give up Anthropology and take up Politics!) [...]

1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

In traditional anthropology, somebody goes to another country, says: “How fascinating these people are! How interesting their tools and their culture are,” and then they write a paper, and maybe a few other anthropologists read it, and we think these cultures are very exotic.

2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN:

But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN:


pedologist

A scientist who studies origins, composition and distribution of soils and the materials from which soils are formed.


papyrologist

From papyro- + -ologist, after the model of earlier papyrology.

A student of or expert in papyrology, the study of papyrus and ancient writings on papyrus.


palaeoanthropologist

Alternative spelling of paleoanthropologist.


paleoanthropologist

paleoanthropologists (plural)
palaeoanthropologist (alternative)
palaeanthropologist (alternative)

A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology.


Turkologist

A scholar specializing in the languages, history or cultures of Turkic peoples, including for example Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, and Karakalpak.


Africanist

The ANC was criticized by a number of Africanist members who accused the leadership of protecting the interests of the landlords at the expense of the tenants.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 194:

An African nationalist; someone who subscribes to the doctrine of Africanism.


ethnologist

The learned modern Ethnologists, however, will generally have none of this latter idea. As a rule they delight in representing early peoples as totally destitute of common sense (which is supposed to be a monopoly of us moderns!); and if the Sabbath-arrangement has had any value or use they insist on ascribing this to pure accident, and not to the application of any sane argument or reason.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 194:


orientalist

orientalists (plural)
Orientalist (alternative)

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1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D.
Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.

If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:

A scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient.

مُسْتَشْرِق

a person (especially a scholar) interested in the orient


Hellenist

From Ancient Greek ἑλληνιστής (hellēnistḗs, “somebody who speaks Greek”), from ἑλληνίζειν (hellēnízein, “to speak Greek, to behave like a Greek, to become Greek, hellenize”) (infinitive of ἑλληνίζω (hellēnízō)), from Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”).

der

A person who adopted the Greek customs, language and culture during the Hellenistic period, especially a Hellenized Jew.

希利尼人

person who adopted the Greek culture during the Hellenistic period


Arabist

en-adj

Arabist (comparative more Arabist, superlative most Arabist)

more Arabist (comparative)
most Arabist (superlative)

Pertaining to Arabism; medieval Arabic scholarship.


behaviorist

behaviorists (plural)
behaviourist (alternative)

One who studies behavior of humans or animals.


zooarchaeologist

zooarchaeologists (plural)
zoarchaeologist (alternative)
zooarcheologist (alternative)


ethnolinguist

A scholar of ethnolinguistics; a linguistic anthropologist who studies the language of a specific ethnic group.


ethnographer

First, some ethnographers would argue that reconceptualizing groupness is necessary to better understand sharedness as a quality of group communication.

2002, Lawrence R. Frey, New Directions in Group Communication:

The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.

2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87:


sinologist

sinologists (plural)
Sinologist (alternative)

From sinology (“study of China”) + -ist (“(agent)”). Equivalent to sino- (“China”) + -logist (“student of, expert on”).


Indo-Europeanist

Indo-Europeanists (plural)
Indoeuropeanist (alternative)

The Nostratic hypothesis was postulated for the first time by the Danish Indo-Europeanist, Holger Pedersen, at the beginning of the 20th century. Today we suppose a Nostratic origin for Afroasiatic (Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic), with perhaps a rather independent position; Kartvelian, Indo-European, Uralic (Fenno-Ugric and Samoyed), Dravidian (probably together with the extinct Elamite) and Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusian, Korean, Japanese).

1992, Václav Blazek, Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens?, page 139:

It had been assumed that the two series merged by the time of Common Balto-Slavic until the Indo-Europeanist Werner Winter proposed in the 1970s that the distinction had persisted for longer, at least between *dh and *d.

2004, Benjamin W. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, page 365:

The vast majority of Indo-Europeanists posit either three or four laryngeals for the Indo-European parent language, while Dolgopolsky posits a multitude of controversial phonemes here, most conveniently subsumed under cover symbols, without further explanation as to their phonetic make-up, their vowel-coloring or lengthening effects, or their development in the Indo-European daughter languages.

2009, Allan R. Bomhard, The Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European Consonantism and Its Implications for Nostratic Sound Correspondences, page 7:

Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies

(Indo-European studies) A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies.

հնդեվրոպաբան

person specialised in Indo-European studies


bioanthropologist

Any anthropologist whose speciality is bioanthropology.


ethnobotanist

Eric J. Buenz, an ethnobotanist at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, led the team that wrote a paper about the text[…].

2007 January 16, Nicholas Bakalar, “17th-Century Remedy; 21st-Century Potency”, in New York Times:

A scholar or researcher in the field of ethnobotany


Germanist

Borrowed from German Germanist, along the model of earlier English Romanist (“scholar of Romance languages”). By surface analysis, German + -ist, doublet of Germanicist.

m+

(humanities; dated) A person who studies the Germanic languages, the associated literatures and/or cultures.

germanista

person who studies Germanic languages and cultures


Armenologist

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anthro

en-noun

anthro (countable and uncountable, plural anthros)

Workshop anthros often ask Indians of tender age to give their authoritative answers to problems which an entire generation of Indians is just now beginning to solve.

1969, Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for your Sins:

While Deloria may have hoped to move anthropologists to be more appreciative, Erdoes simply sets scholars up as straw men for the average non-Indian academic reader to self-servingly scorn. Anthros are responsible for believing reservation Indians are “warriors without weapons” (1972:36-37)

1994, Julian Rice, “A ventriloquy of anthros”, in American Indian Quarterly, page 176:

(informal, countable) An anthropologist.


zooarcheologist

Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist.


Sumerologist

For example, the Sumerologist Jacobsen places the poem in which the young Inanna, still a maiden in puberty, asks a court musician to help her compose a poem to her vulva, in the middle of the cycle, at a point in time when she is recalling the early days when she first chose Dumuzi as her spouse; yet in the poem she is clearly inquiring who will become her lover, and so I place it as part of the beginning: a poem about the virginal Inanna in meditation on the mysteries of her own vulva.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 168:

A person who studies ancient Sumer and the Sumerians; an expert in Sumerology.


zoarchaeologist

/ˌzəʊɑːkiːˈɒlədʒɪst/

From zo- + archaeologist, omitting the superfluous -o- (unnecessary because archaeologist begins with a vowel).

Full membership finally grew to include Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., Thomas R. Hester, Marvin Rowe (professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University), Harry J. Shafer, D. Gentry Steele (professor of anthropology, physical anthropologist, and zoarchaeologist Texas A&M University), and Peter W. Van Arsdale.

1999, O. W. Hampton, Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the Dani, page xxiv:

(rare) Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist.


archaeozoologist

archaeozoologists (plural)
archeozoologist (alternative)


palaeanthropologist

Alternative form of paleoanthropologist.


socioanthropologist

Médina Gounass was first settled in the early 1960s by rural people flocking to the city’s outskirts, people who were not “educated in the culture of trash disposal,” said Fatou Sarr, a socioanthropologist at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, who has written about the area.

2009 May 3, Adam Nossiter, “In a Senegalese Slum, a Building Material Both Primitive and Perilous”, in New York Times:


social anthropologist

social anthropologist (plural social anthropologists)

Now for some rather more human terminology! Nodes can have mothers, daughters, and sisters (though interestingly the corresponding relations are known as fathers, sons, and brothers in Italian; I shall leave it to social anthropologists and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this cross-cultural transvestism may be!).

1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 113:

An anthropologist who specializes in social anthropology.


Amazonianist

One who studies Amazonian regions and cultures.

amazonista

one who studies Amazonian regions and cultures


Mongolist

One who studies Mongolia, the Mongolic languages or Mongolian culture.

монголи́ст

one who studies Mongolia, the Mongolic languages or Mongolian culture


Amerindianist

A scholar who studies the American Indians.


anthroposociologist

We may therefore admit the force of the arguments of the school of criminal anthropologists headed by Lombroso, of the school of anthroposociologists headed by Lapouge, of the school of individualists headed by Demolins, and of the statiscians, who have demonstrated the law that the increase of intelligence and of population are inversely proportional […]

1903, Lester Frank Ward, Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society, page 231:

We find, a generation later, the well-informed, impassioned, thought-compelling rhapsodies of the anthroposociologist Vacher de Lapouge.

1917, “France and "The Great Race"”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 8, number 16, page 252:

The anthroposociologist, Ivan Bloch, in The Sexual Life of Our Times (1906), points out how modern society simultaneously ridicules the 'old maid' and 'condemns the unmarried mother to infamy'.

2007, Lisa Appignanesi, Sad, mad and bad: women and the mind-doctors from 1800, page 183:

As an anthroposociologist and a critic of contemporary French society, Vacher de Lapouge was concemed with two dominant social obsessions of the Third Republic: fear of population decline and of racial degeneration.

2013, Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography, volume 15, page 99:


Pama-Nyunganist

A linguist who specializes in studying Pama-Nyungan languages.


Californianist

Californianists have argued that areal patterns in the region show that phonological and grammatical convergence is more prominent than lexical borrowing, challenging the usual understanding that lexical items are universally more "borrowable", needing less intense language contact than is required for convergence of traits of grammar and phonology.

2019, Daniel Siddiqi, The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages, page 579:

A linguist or anthropologist who specializes in studying the peoples and languages of California.


human geographer

human geographer (plural human geographers)


ethnopsychiatrist

A psychiatrist whose speciality is ethnopsychiatry


Gaelicist

One who studies the Gaels or the Gaelic language(s).


Ethiopist

Equivalent to Ethiopia + -ist. Likely a Germanism or Frenchism.

A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Ethiopian studies.

etiopista

A person; one who is skilled professes or practices Ethiopian studies


teenologist

“Of course we must also discredit the sociologists, criminologists, teenologists, and all the other 'ologists' that constantly find excuses for people not taking their personal responsibility seriously enough,” Reiffel added, […]

2004, Jonathan Ledwidge, A Mannequin for President:

Briefly Leanne imagined telling her friend Jane that she would quit her job at the high school and come to New York City and join Jane's practice of teenologists.

2012, Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling, page 255:

We'd be the best 'teenologists.' With this book, we could dictate our own terms on appropriate adolescent etiquette. Because adults like Ms. Michaels forget what it's like to be a teen, and all the pressure coming at you […]

2018, Christopher Phillips, A Child at Heart:

(rare, informal) An expert on the subject of teenagers and their psychology.


cultural anthropologist

cultural anthropologist (plural cultural anthropologists)

cultural anthropology
cultural anthropology

An anthropologist who specializes in cultural anthropology.


vietnamist

vietnamists (plural)
Vietnamist (alternative)

A student or expert in Vietnamese studies.

Vietnamist

a student, or expert in Vietnamese studies


papyrographer

From papyro- (“papyrus, paper”) + -grapher (“writer”) and papyrograph + -er.


Yamatologist

Calque of Italian yamatologo (“Japanologist”) when used by Italian speakers, from Yamato + -logist otherwise.

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The most learned amongst the Yamatologists are still dependant^([sic]) upon Japanese for the information that furnishes the basis of all contributions; and why not have the authorities at the meetings, with interpreters for the benefit of those who have not acquired the necessary knowledge of Japanese?

1898 January 5, C[harles] Pfoundes, “The “Social Evil.”: To the Editor of the “Japan Mail.””, in The Japan Weekly Mail: A Review of Japanese Commerce, Politics, Literature, and Art, volume XXIX, number 2, Yokohama: Printed and published for […] , by Arthur Bellamy Brown, […] , published 1898 January 8, →OCLC, page 41, column 3:

[Epigraph:] Giuseppe Morichini, the late Italian Yamatologist, was preparing for publication in our East and West a long review on the work by Nakamura Hajime «Indo Tetsugaku Shisô» […]

1960 March, Giuseppe Morichini, “Review of Early Vedānta Philosophy”, in East and West, volume 11, number 1, page 33:

The division which provides services for non-Japanese specializes in providing support in the form of scholarships to scholars and researchers who plan to study in Japan for more than one month but less than one year, and also in inviting both Yamatologists and non-experts alike to attend international meetings or inspect various Japanese institutions for two or three weeks.

1974 November, “The Activities of the Japan Foundation”, in Morita Tohru, editor, The East, volume 10, number 9, Tokyo: The East Publications, Inc., →OCLC, page 17:

For an appropriate translation of this term [baka], I refer to one of the leading Yamatologists in Italy, Professor Adriana Boscaro of the University of Venice at Ca’ Foscari.

1997, Antonio Marazzi, “If Japanese Are Samurai, Italians are Baka: The Multiple Play of Stereotypes”, in Beverly Allen, Mary Russo, editors, Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 277:

How can we interpret this attention to the “harmony between order and form” that shaped the lesson review in Japan? We have tried to reconstruct the “umbrella cultural themes” with the help of a yamatologist, who introduced us to the issue of kata or shikata.

2020, Maria G. Bartolini Bussi et al., “Mathematics Teachers’ Cultural Beliefs: The Case of Lesson Study” (chapter 5), in Despina Potari, Olive Chapman, editors, International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 140:

(chiefly Italian, non-native speakers' English) Synonym of Japanologist (“one who studies Japan, its language, culture and history”).

chiefly Italian; non-native speakers' English; chiefly Italian; non-native speakers' English