ethnologist
ethnologist — 名詞
- ethnologistsingular
- ethnologistsplural
1. A scientist who compares and analyses the customs, social organisations, beliefs
民族學家
研究不同民族文化與社會的學者
A scientist who compares and analyses the customs, social organisations, beliefs, and daily life of different human communities around the world.
Kasia, an ethnologist, lived with farmers in northern Thailand to study their harvest festivals.
民族學家 Kasia 曾與泰國北部的農民同住，研究他們的豐收節慶。
ethnologist + lived with [community] to study [custom]
Darius compared the wedding traditions of five groups living in the same valley.
Darius 比較了同一個山谷中五個族群的婚禮傳統。
The village elders asked an ethnologist to record their oral history before it was lost.
村裡的長老聘請一位民族學家，記錄他們的口述歷史以免失傳。
Faisal became an ethnologist to understand how family rules differ across cultures.
Faisal 成為民族學家，是為了了解不同文化的家庭規範有何差異。
A museum in Peru hired an ethnologist to identify the origin of ancient textiles from the Andes.
祕魯的一家博物館聘請民族學家，鑑定一批安地斯古織品的來源。
- anthropologist
broader field — anthropologists study all aspects of human life including biology, language, and archaeology, while ethnologists focus specifically on comparing cultural groups
- ethnographer
more specific — ethnographers collect data by living with a community (fieldwork), while ethnologists also compare findings across multiple groups
- cultural researcher
less formal, everyday alternative
文法句型
ethnologist + studies / examines / researches / documents
用法筆記
This is a formal, academic term. In everyday conversation, people are more likely to say 'someone who studies different cultures'.