单词 | indianist |
释义 | Indianistn.adj. A. n. 1. ΚΠ 1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. D 2v With Spaniards, shee's an Indianist, With barbarous Turks a Sodomist. b. An enthusiast for or expert in American Indian culture; (also) an advocate of American Indian interests. Cf. Indianism n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > cultures of specific peoples or nations > student of occidentalist1859 Celtologist1860 Celtologue1884 Indianist1922 1922 I. Goldberg Brazilian Lit. iv. 94 Alencar is to the novel what Gonçalves Dias is to the poem: the typical Indianist. But Brazilians find his Indianism superior to that of the poet in both sincerity and majesty. 1954 Amer. Anthropologist 56 678 The unfortunate preconception by preceding anthropologists that Indianists should concentrate on items Indian, including diffusion of traits between tribes, but not between natives and Europeans. 1996 Historian (Nexis) Dec. 383 Gagliano also seems to accept at face value the twentieth-century Indianists' claim that limiting or abolishing coca use would indeed improve the lives of Peru's indigenous majority. 2005 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 28 Nov. a1 Nielsen, a non-Native raised by a Yankton Sioux man, said some Indianists even criticize Natives for not living today as their ancestors did centuries ago. 2. An expert or specialist in the languages, history, or culture of India. Cf. orientalist n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun] > specific races > person sinologist1814 Indianist1817 sinologue1821 Americanist1852 Indianologist1859 gypsyologist1863 occidentalist1877 Africanist1880 Japanologist1881 Turcologist1881 tziganologue1884 Indologian1897 Persianist1903 Indologist1904 Tziganologist1909 Hispanist1934 Mayanist1950 Sovietologist1958 Tibetologist1964 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indic > one versed in Indian languages Indianist1870 1817 J. D. Price tr. S. S. Uvarov Ess. Myst. Eleusis ii. 120 (Note) The peace which now unites the whole world will give fresh activity to the English Indianists [Fr. des Indianistes Anglois]. 1823 Port Folio Sept. 255 The limits of this review do not allow us to follow our learned Indianist through the immense labyrinth of the Brahmanic theogony. 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech i. 13 The problems had remained unsolved because the sinologues had known no Sanskrit, and the Indianists had known no Chinese. 1909 W. F. Warren Earliest Cosmologies vii. 86 The word has been explained by Sanskrit etymologists as signifying ‘between waters’. Accordingly, Indianists have usually translated it ‘island’. 1971 Current Anthropol. 12 200/1 The view which prevailed among Indianists and others was that belief in the sanctity of the cow was responsible for the large number of cattle. 2005 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 15 Aug. The classic study of Satyajit Ray by (another) Andrew Robinson no relation to the exhibition organiser, but as keen an Indianist. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by Indianism (Indianism n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Amerindian > [adjective] > relating to pan-Indian1921 Indianist1922 1922 I. Goldberg tr. J. Verissimo in Brazilian Lit. i. iv. 90 With the exception of Gonçalves Dias, none of them is even ‘Indianist’. 1950 Caribbean Q. 2 iii. 14 Perhaps the finest Indianist writing was produced in Brazil by Goncalves Dias and José de Alencar. 1960 Guardian 22 Nov. 9/6 The new generation of [Mexican] artists and architects were obsessed and inspired by..their own Indianist past. 1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 28/1 The attempt to influence the Dominican Republic..only succeeded in forcing Dominican thinkers into a hispanophile, negrophobic and indianist mould. 2001 E. K. Kirk Amer. Opera viii. 155 After Winona, the Indianist movement in opera waned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1604 |
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