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单词 indianist
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Indianistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈɪndɪənɪst/, U.S. /ˈɪndiənəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Indian n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < Indian n. + -ist suffix. Compare French Indianiste (1814 as adjective, 1816 as noun, earliest with reference to India, later also with reference to American Indian culture), and (with senses A. 1b and B.) Portuguese indianista (1890; adjective and noun, with reference both to India and to American Indian culture).
A. n.
1.
a. Perhaps: a user of tobacco. Cf. Indian herb n. at Indian adj. and n. Compounds 1b(a), Indian weed n. 1a. Obsolete. rare.
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).
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