migrationistn.adj.
/mʌɪˈɡreɪʃn̩ɪst/, /mʌɪˈɡreɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌmaɪˈɡreɪʃ(ə)nəst/ A. n.† 2. A person who participates in a migration; one of a group of migrants. Obsolete. rare.
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a. A person who emphasizes the importance of migration in the distribution and evolution of animal and plant species.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > ecology
migrationist1845
marine biologist1885
synecologist1913
ecologist1930
hydro-biologist1932
cryobiologist1962
saprobiologist1965
1845 J. D. Hooker Let. in C. Darwin Corr. (1987) III. 149 I shall declare myself a good migrationist.
1918 L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker II. xxxii. 98 Darwin was a migrationist; Forbes and others pushed the extension theory to excess.
1976 Jrnl. Human Evol. 5 477 (heading) Explaining modern man: evolutionists versus migrationists.
b. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology. An adherent of the theory of migrationism.
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1978 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 7 485 The debate over these later phases of prehistory pitted diffusionists against migrationists, and to the extent that the newer doctrine prospered, it did so largely at the expense of the older one.
1998 Current Anthropol. 39 30/1 Outside of Germany he [sc. Kossinna] was labeled a migrationist; within Germany, however, he was an autochthonist, for he believed in the permanent continuity of the population of northern Europe..while preferring migrationist interpretations everywhere else.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [noun]
migrator1767
Jimmy1845
trekker1851
rusher1856
overlander1857
migrant1864
migrationist1887
trekkie1888
in-migrant1942
1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 17 130 Successive waves of migration, bringing with them the necessary conquest of the descendants of previous ages of migrationists, must have been bound together by closer ties.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or involving migration; migrational; (Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology) of or relating to migrationism.
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1956 V. Gordon Childe Piecing Together Past viii. 153 This sort of approach..obliges the prehistorian to undertake a much profounder study of the cultures concerned than is demanded for facile migrationist interpretations.
1969 Current Anthropol. 10 152/2 The invasionist/migrationist model..will suggest that an apparently rapid and marked change in culture is explicable by the arrival of a new group of people.
1970 Nature 12 Dec. 1020/1 It remains to be seen whether a Breton origin for the British megaliths will find favour, among archaeologists, at a time when migrationist explanations in prehistory seem to be going out of favour.
1975 Current Anthropol. 16 476/1 The German ‘culture-historical school’ is not diffusionist but migrationist.
1987 C. Renfrew Archaeol. & Lang. iv. 87 The first error..was..to conclude that the emergence of a new pottery style or a new complex of finds in an area indicated the development—or even the arrival—of a new group of people. Modern archaeology is shifting completely away from that kind of ‘migrationist’ thinking.
1990 Current Anthropol. 31 577/2 The association of some migrationist and hyperdiffusionist hypotheses with some racist and imperialist doctrines.
1994 Botanica Marina 37 247 These findings strongly favour a migrationist jump across the equator to the other Hemisphere during Pleistocene lowering of the water temperatures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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