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1846 Times 15 May 4/5 ‘Smith’ has been proved by..an American ethnicist and philologist to be nothing more nor less than Shemita, or a descendant of Shem.

1996 Jrnl. Amer. Ethnic Hist. 16 114 ‘Ethnicists’..focus their trained intellects on groups with distinctive characteristics and interesting social histories.

1929 J. Joyce Contin. Work in Progress in transition No. 18. 226 Begor, Mr O'Sorgmann, you're looking right well. Hecklar's champion ethnicist.

1952 E. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Liberty or Equality v. 200 Before 1933 the supremacy was contested among..Socialist parties which..divided humanity into bourgeois and proletarians.., ethnicists, who distinguished between Germans and non-Germans.., racialists, [etc.].

1958 Far Eastern Surv. 27 59/1 Sudanese ethnicists, backed by Muslim extremists and a handful of dissident military, appear to have been responsible for this assassination attempt.

1980 Economist 15 Mar. 57/2 In American politics..there are always attitudinisers, ethnicists, sectionalists, who put first the interests of themselves or of some fragments of the electoral community the wooing of which will promote their personal political fortunes.

2007 P. F. Bouteneff in A. Buturović & İ. C. Schick Women in Ottoman Balkans ii. 49 During this period, many Pontians became ethnicists, actively interested in maintaining their cultural community.

1984 N.Y. Times 13 June c9/1 The shop has something of interest for virtually everyone, from the ethnicist interested in the cooking of Sri Lanka to the food historian [etc.].

2000 Times 6 Mar. 36/3 Dries Van Noten, flag-bearer for chic ethnicists everywhere, has moved on with a pretty collection that married romance with affluence. Beneath those demure tweed coats twinkled sparkly dresses and gold shoes.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Nov. 23 Every year someone complains that the event [sc. the London jazz festival] is trading under a false name because of the presence of hip-hoppers,..worldbeat ethnicists, classical players,..and so on.