tohunga tikanga tangata
1. (noun) anthropologist.
Ko tōna mana i roto i te ao Māori, pērā i tōna mana hei tino tohunga tikanga tangata rā, e pā ana ki ngā taonga ā-iwi o Poronihia, ka tū tonu, ka tū tonu (TTR 1996:18). / His standing in the Māori world, as is his mana as an anthropologist, particularly of Polynesian material culture, remains undiminished.