The following is a list of scientists and scholars of anthropology: Anthropology (from Greek: ἀνθρωπος, anthropos, human being; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of humanity. ...

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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• John Adair
• Talal Asad
• Timothy Asch

John Adair (1913 - 1997) Born in Memphis, Tennessee. ... Talal Asad is an anthropoligist at the City University of New York who has made important theoretical contributions to Post-Colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and Ritual Studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of Secularism. ... Tim Asch (July 16, 1932 in Southhampton, New York - October 3, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a noted ethnographer, filmmaker, and photographer. ...

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• Nigel Barley
• Fredrik Barth
• Vasily Bartold
• Keith H. Basso
• Daisy Bates
• Ruth Behar
• Ruth Benedict
• Lee Berger
• Theodore C. Bestor
• Lewis Binford
• Wilhelm Bleek
• Anton Blok
• Franz Boas
• Dmitri Bondarenko
• Pere Bosch-Gimpera
• Pierre Bourdieu
• Brent Berlin
• Paul Broca
• Sir Peter Buck

Nigel Barley is an anthropologist famous for the books he has written on his experiences. ... Fredrik Barth (b. ... Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (Russian: , also known as Wilhelm Barthold; 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1869 in Saint Petersburg — 19 August 1930 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet historian who succeeded Wilhelm Radloff as the greatest authority in the field of Turcology. ... Keith H. Basso is an anthropologist that studied of the Western Apaches (specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona) from 1965 through 1975. ... Daisy May (ODwyer) Bates (1863-1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. ... Ruth Behar (born 1962) is an American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Professor Lee Rogers Berger, also known as Rod when he was younger, was born in Shawnee Mission Kansas in 1965 but grew up in Georgia in the United States but has lived in South Africa since 1989 and has been a Permanent Resident of South Africa since 1993. ... Theodore C. Bestor is a Professor of Anthropology and Japanology at Harvard University in Boston. ... Lewis Roberts Binford (born 1930) is an American archaeologist, known as the leader of the New Archaeology movement of the 1950s/60s. ... Wilhelm Bleek Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (March 8, 1827 - August 17, 1875) was a German linguist. ... Anton Blok is an anthropologist famous for studying the Mafia in Sicily in the 1960s. ... Franz Boas Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942[1]) was one of the pioneers of modern anthropology and is often called the Father of American Anthropology. Born in Germany, Boas worked for most of his life in North America. ... Dmitri Bondarenko (born in Moscow in 1968 ) is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and Africanist. ... Pere Bosch-Gimpera (born 1891 in Barcelona, Spain; died 1974 in Mexico) was a Spanish-born Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist. ... Pierre Bourdieu (August 1, 1930 – January 23, 2002) was an acclaimed French sociologist whose work employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines: from philosophy and literary theory to sociology and anthropology. ... Brent Berlin is an anthropologist. ... Paul Pierre Broca (June 28, 1824 - July 9, 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. ... Peter Henry Buck (ca. ...

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• Mauro Campagnoli
• Joseph Campbell
• Edmund Carpenter
• Napoleon Chagnon
• Pierre Clastres
• Carleton S. Coon
• Frank Hamilton Cushing

Mauro Campagnoli (born in Turin, 1975), is an Italian anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and composer. ... For other uses, see Joseph Campbell (disambiguation). ... Edmund (Snow) Ted Carpenter (born 1922) has taught anthropology for 40 years at the Universities of Toronto, California and Harvard. ... Napoleon A. Chagnon (born 1938) is an American anthropologist. ... Pierre Clastres, (1934-1977), was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. ... Carleton Stevens Coon, (23 June 1904 – 3 June 1981) was an American physical anthropologist best remembered for his books on race. ... Frank Hamilton Cushing July 22, 1857- April 10, 1900 was born in Northeastern Pennsylvania, later moving with his family to western New York. ...

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• Regna Darnell
• Raymond Dart
• Ella Cara Deloria
• Raymond J. DeMallie
• Stanley Diamond
• Mary Douglas
• Eugene Dubois
• Sam Dunn
• Émile Durkheim

Regna Darnell is a Canadian anthropologist known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology. ... Raymond Dart, holding the Taung Child skull Raymond Dart (February 4, 1893–22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for his discovery in 1924 of a fossil of Australopithecus at Taung in Northwestern South Africa. ... Ella Cara Deloria (January 30, 1888 – February 12, 1971), also called Anpetu Waste Win (Beautiful Day Woman), was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background. ... Raymond J. Mallie is an American anthropologist specializing in ethnology of the Sioux and Assiniboine peoples of North and South Dakota and Montana. ... Stanley Leo Diamond a. ... Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, (born March 25, 1921 - died 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. ... Eugene Dubois (January 28, 1858 - December 16, 1940) was a Dutch anthropologist, who earned world-wide fame with the discovery of Homo erectus in Java in 1891. ... Sam Dunn is an Canadian Anthropologist most famous for his documentary, Metal: A Headbangers Journey. ... Emile Durkheim. ...

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• Mircea Eliade
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard
• Arturo Escobar

This article is becoming very long. ... Sir Edward Evan (E. E.) Evans-Pritchard (September 21, 1902 – September 11, 1973) was a British anthropologist instrumental in the development of social anthropology in that country. ... Arturo Escobar V. (born in Manizales, Colombia) is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ...

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• Raymond Firth
• Raymond D. Fogelson
• Meyer Fortes
• Diane Fossey
• Michel Foucault
• James Frazer
• James Ferguson

Sir Raymond William Firth (born March 25, 1901 in Auckland; died February 22, 2002 in London) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. ... Raymond D. Fogelson (August 23, 1933- ) is an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee. ... South African-born anthropologist Meyer Fortes (1906-1983) is best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. ... Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist who completed an extended study of several gorilla groups. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. ... Sir James George Frazer (January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland – May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. ... James Ferguson was/is the name of: James Ferguson, a 19th century American astronomer A Canadian musician who died in 1997 A cultural anthropologist James Ferguson, a Canadian politician This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

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• Geri-Ann Galanti
• Clifford Geertz
• Alfred Gell
• Ernest Gellner
• Max Gluckman
• Maurice Godelier
• Jane Goodall
• David Graeber
• Hilma Granqvist
• J. Patrick Gray
• Marcel Griaule
• Jacob Grimm
• Wilhelm Grimm

Geri-Ann Galanti, Ph. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Alfred (Antony Francis) Gell (June 12, 1945-January 28, 1997) was a British social anthropologist whose most influential work concerned art, language, symbolism and ritual. ... I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs . ... Max Gluckman, born 26 January 1911 in Johannesburg of Russian Jewish parents, died 1975, was a South African social anthropologist. ... Born in Cambrai, France in 1934, Maurice Godelier is one of the most influential names in French anthropology. ... Dame Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace, (born April 3, 1934) is an English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. ... David Graeber David Graeber is an anarchist and anthropologist. ... Hilma Granqvist (1890-1972) was a Finish anthropologist who conducted long field studies of Palestinians. ... J. Patrick Gray is a professor of anthropology at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Marcel Griaule (1898 – 1956) was a French anthropologist known for his studies with the Dogon of West Africa and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. ... The Brothers Grimm on a 1000DM banknote. ... The Brothers Grimm on a 1000DM banknote. ...

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• Horatio Hale
• Peter Hammond
• Michael Harkin
• Michael Harner
• John P. Harrington
• Marvin Harris
• Jacquetta Hawkes
• Edgar Lee Hewett
• Arthur Maurice Hocart
• Earnest Hooton
• Ian Hodder
• E. Adamson Hoebel
• Aleš Hrdlička
• Patrick Hunout
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Dell Hymes

Horatio Hale (May 3, 1817 - December 28, 1896), American ethnologist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. ... Peter J. Hammond (sometimes credited as P. J. Hammond) is a British television writer. ... Michael Eugene Harkin (b. ... Michael Harner synthesized shamanic beliefs and practices from all over the world into a system now known as core shamanism or neoshamanism. ... John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the native peoples of California. ... Marvin Harris Marvin Harris (August 18, 1927 – October 25, 2001) was an American anthropologist. ... Jacquetta Hawkes, née Hopkins, (August 5, 1910 – March 18, 1996) was a British archaeologist. ... Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett (1865 - 1946) was an archaeologist/anthropologist active in work on the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States, and most famous for his role in bringing about the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement. ... Arthur Maurice Hocart was an anthropologist best known for his eccentric and often far-seeing works on Polynesia, Melanesia and Sri Lanka. ... Earnest A. Hooton (November 20, 1887 Clemansville, Wisconsin -- May 3, 1954 Cambridge, Massachussets) was a physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Apes. ... Ian R. Hodder (born 23 November 1948 in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology. ... E. Adamson Hoebel (1906-1993) was Regents Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. ... . Aleš Hrdlička (March 30, 1869, Humpolec, today Czech Republic - 1943) was Czech anthropologist living in the USA. His family emigrated in the USA in 1881. ... Patrick Hunout is a researcher and policymaker who in 1999 created The International Scope Review, one of the largest peer-reviewed academic journals in the economic and social sciences. ... Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Dell Hymes (born 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languagues of the Pacific Northwest. ...

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• Miyako Inoue (linguistic anthropologist)

Miyako Inoue is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. ...

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• William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. ...

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• Sergei Kan
• Jomo Kenyatta
• David Kertzer
• Anatoly Khazanov
• Richard G. Klein
• Dorinne K. Kondo
• Andrey Korotayev
• Conrad Kottak
• Grover Krantz
• Charles H. Kraft
• Kewal Krishan
• Alfred L. Kroeber
• Theodora Kroeber
• Adam Kuper

Sergei Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox church in Tlingit communities. ... Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta (October 20, 1889 – August 22, 1978) served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. ... David I. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. ... Anatoly Khazanov (born in 1937) is an anthropologist and historian. ... Richard G. Klein is a Professor of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University. ... Dorinne K. Kondo is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. ... Andrey Korotayev (born in 1961) is an anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist. ... Conrad Kottak is an American anthropologist. ... Gordon S. Grover Krantz (November 5, 1931 – February 14, 2002) was a professor of physical anthropology at Washington State University, and a renowned Bigfoot researcher. ... Dr. Charles H. Kraft Dr. Charles H. Kraft (born in Connecticut) is a professor of anthropology and intercultural communication at the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. ... Dr Kewal Krishan is a lecturer of Biological Anthropology in Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. ... Alfred Louis Kroeber Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876–October 5, 1960) was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. ... Theodora Kracaw Kroeber (1897-1979) was a writer and anthropologist best known for her interpretations of the oral traditions of several native Californian cultures. ... Adam Kuper is a British anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. ...

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• William Labov
• George Lakoff
• Harold E. Lambert
• Bruno Latour
• Edmund Leach
• Murray Leaf
• Louis Leakey
• Mary Leakey
• Richard Leakey
• Richard Borshay Lee
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Robert Lowie
• Nancy Lurie

Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-02-04, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Harold E. Lambert British linguist and anthropologist in Kenya (1893-1967) Born in Pield Heath (1893), raised in Bournemouth (Dorset), and educated at Queens College, Cambridge University (1912-1915), Harold E. Lambert served as a Platoon Commander during World War I, and was wounded in the Battle of the Somme... Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. ... Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (November 7, 1910 – January 6, 1989) was a British anthropologist. ... Murray J. Leaf is an American social and cultural anthropologist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mary Leakey (February 6, 1913 – December 9, 1996) was a British archaeologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island. ... In 1977, Leaky sat next to the rare Half Monkey Half Man, who took a bite out of him, and made Leaky cry. ... Richard Borshay Lee is an anthropologist who has studied at the University of Toronto and Berkeleys University of California, where he received a Ph. ... Claude Lévi-Strauss Claude Lévi-Strauss (IPA pronunciation ); born November 28, 1908) is a Jewish-French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. ... Robert Henry Lowie (1883 – 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. ... Nancy Ostreich Lurie (January 29, 1924 - 1988) was an American anthropologist and specialist in North American indians. ...

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• Alan Macfarlane
• Saba Mahmood
• Bronisław Malinowski
• John Alden Mason
• Marcel Mauss
• Phillip McArthur
• Margaret Mead
• Mervyn Meggitt
• Josef Mengele
• Nikolay Miklukho-Maklay
• Emily Martin
• Sidney Mintz
• Ashley Montagu
• James Mooney
• John H. Moore
• Lewis H. Morgan
• George Murdock

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge. ... Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist at UC Berkeley and the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005). ... Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) was a Polish anthropologist widely considered to be one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century because of his pioneering work on ethnographic fieldwork, the study of reciprocity, and his detailed contribution to the study of Melanesia. ... John Alden Mason (1885 – November 7, 1967) was an archaeological anthropologist and linguist. ... Marcel Mauss (May 10, 1872 – February 10, 1950) was a French sociologist best known for his role in elaborating on and securing the legacy of his uncle Émile Durkheim and the Année Sociologique. ... Phillip H. McArthur is a noted folklorist and anthropologist. ... Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. ... Mervyn Meggitt (died 13 November 2003 New York State) was an American anthropologist who was one of the pioneering researchers of higlands Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia. ... Josef Mengele (March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979), was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. ... Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai (Николай Николаевич Миклухо-Маклай in Russian) (1846 - 1888) was a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. ... Emily Martin is a sinologist, anthropologist, and feminist. ... Sidney Wilfred Mintz (born November 16, 1922 in Dover, New Jersey) is an anthropologist best known for his studies of Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England - November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey), was an English anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. ... James Mooney (1861-1921) was a notable anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. ... Dr. John H. Moore is a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. ... Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist and writer. ... For the first mayor of Calgary, Alberta, see George Murdoch George Peter Murdock (May 11, 1897 - March 29, 1985) was a notable anthropologist. ...

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• Laura Nader
• Raoul Naroll
• Erland Nordenskiöld

Laura Nader (born 1930) has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. ... Raoul Naroll (September 10, 1920 – June 25, 1985) was an anthropologist who did much to promote the methodology of cross-cultural studies. ... Baron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld (1877-1932) was a Finnish-Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. ...

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• Gananath Obeyesekere
• Marvin Opler
• Morris Opler
• Sherry Ortner
• Keith F. Otterbein

Gananath Obeyesekere is one of the worlds leading anthropologists, who has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. ... Marvin Kaufmann Opler (born June 13, 1914 in Buffalo, New York - died January 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist and social psychiatrist. ... Morris Edward Opler (May 3, 1907-1996), American anthropologist and advocate of Japanese-American civil rights, was born in Buffalo, New York. ... Sherry Beth Ortner (b. ... Dr. Keith F. Otterbein is a Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYAB), in the United States. ...

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• Bruce Parry (television show host)
• Elsie Clews Parsons
• Bronislav Pilsudski
• Hortense Powdermaker
• A.H.J. Prins
• Harald E.L. Prins

Bruce Parry (born March 17, 1969) is a former British Royal Marine instructor who presents the documentary program Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States), co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. ... Elsie Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875-December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Pueblo and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. ... Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (1866 - 1918), brother of Jozef Pilsudski, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who conducted outstanding research on the Ainu ethnic group, which at the time inhabited Sakhalin Island, but now live mostly on the Japanese island of... Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970) was an anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood. ... Prins, Adriaan Hendrik Johan (1921-2000). ... Harald E.L. Prins Dutch anthropologist, filmmaker, and native rights activist specialized in North and South Americas indigenous peoples and cultures // Born in the Netherlands (1951), Harald Prins is a University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University. ...

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• James Quesada

James Quesada James Quesada is an American born Nicaraguan Cultural Anthroplogist. ...

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• Paul Rabinow
• Wilhelm Radloff
• Roy Rappaport
• Hans Ras
• Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
• Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
• Kathy Reichs
• Audrey Richards
• W. H. R. Rivers
• Paul Rivet
• Eric Ross
• Gayle Rubin
• Robert A. Rubinstein

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Wilhelm Radloff (1837-1918) was the German-born Russian founder of Turcology, or the scientific study of the Turkic peoples. ... Roy A. Rappaport (1926–1997) was an anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology. ... Ras around 1976 Johannes Jacobus (Hans) Ras (1 April 1926 – 22 October 2003) was emeritus professor of Javanese language and literature at Leiden University, the Netherlands. ... Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (January 17, 1881–October 24, British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism, a framework that describes basic concepts relating to the social structure of primitive civilizations. ... Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (March 6, 1912—May 16, 1994) was an anthropologist, known for his holistic approach and his in-depth fieldworks among tropical rainforest cultures (e. ... Kathleen Joan Kathy Reichs is native of Chicago and works as a forensic anthropologist, an academic, and bestselling writer of mystery novels. ... Pioneering British woman ethnographer, Audrey Richards received her PhD in 1931 from the London School of Economics under Malinowski. ... Photograph of W.H.R. Rivers William Halse Rivers Rivers (March 12, 1864 - 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. ... Paul Rivet (1876-1958) was a French ethnologist, who founded the Musée de lHomme in 1937. ... Eric Ross (born 1948 in Pennsylvania, USA) is an American composer and avant-garde musician residing in New York. ... Gayle Rubin is best known as an activist and influential theorist of sex and gender politics. ... This article may contain original research or unverified claims. ...

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• Marshall Sahlins
• Roger Sandall
• Edward Sapir
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes
• Wilhelm Schmidt
• Tobias Schneebaum
• Thayer Scudder
• Elman Service
• Afanasy Shchapov
• Cathy Small
• Jacques Soustelle
• Melford Spiro
• James Spradley
• Julian Steward
• Pradip Kumar Singh
• Herbert Spencer
• Marilyn Strathern
• William Sturtevant
• Niara Sudarkasa

Marshall Sahlins (born 1930) is a prominent American anthropologist. ... Roger Sandall is an essayist and commentator on cultural relativism and is best known as the author of The Culture Cult. ... Edward Sapir. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Wilhelm Schmidt (1868-1954) was a German linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Elman Service was a cultural anthropologist. ... Afanasy P. Schapov Afanasiy Prokopievich Shchapov (Афанасий Прокофьевич Щапов in Russian) (May 10(17). ... Rebekah Nathan is the pen name for Cathy Small, Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. ... Jacques Soustelle was born in Montpellier, France on 3 February 1912 and died 6 August 1990. ... Melford Elliot Spiro (born 1920) is an American cultural anthropologist. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Julian Haynes Steward (January 31, 1902 – February 6, 1972) was an American anthropologist best known for his role in the development of a scientific theory of cultural evolution in the years following World War II. Steward was born in Washington, D.C. His father was the chief of the Board... Pradip Kumar Singh is Reader in Anthropology at Ranchi College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, in the Jharkhand State in India. ... Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. ... (Ann) Marilyn Strathern, née Evans (born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist, currently William Wyse Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge University and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. ... Dr. William C. Sturtevant (1926 - 2007) is best known as the general editor of the 20-volume Handbook of North American Indians. ... Niara Sudarkasa (b. ...

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• Michael Taussig
• Edward Burnett Tylor
• Colin Turnbull
• Terence Turner
• Victor Turner
• Bruce Trigger

Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Edward Burnett Tylor. ... Colin Macmillan Turnbull (November 23, 1924 - July 28, 1994) was a prominent British anthropologist who gained fame with his book The Forest People (1962), a detailed study of the Mbuti Pygmies. ... Terence Turner was a fictional character on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. ... Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a Scottish anthropologist. ... Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937–December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist. ...

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• Verrier Elwin
• Karl Verner
• L. P. Vidyarthi

Verrier Elwin (1902 - 1964) was educated in Oxford University. ... Karl Adolf Verner (* 7. ... Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi (1931-1985) was one of the most renowned Indian anthropologist of 20th Century. ...

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• Camilla Wedgwood
• Hank Wesselman
• Douglas R. White
• Leslie White
• Tim White
• Benjamin Whorf
• Unni Wikan
• Clark Wissler
• Eric Wolf
• Sol Worth

Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (March 25, 1901 Barlaston, England - May 17, 1955) was a British anthropologist best known for research in the Pacific and her pioneering role as one of the British Commonwealths first female anthropologists. ... Hank Wesselman is an anthropologist whose research interests include uncovering the origins of human life. ... Douglas R. White is an American social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine. ... Leslie Alvin White ([19 January [1900]], Salida Colorado -- 31 March 1975) was an anthropologist known for his advocacy of theories of cultural evolution and his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. ... Tim White (born August 24, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is an American anthropologist. ... Photo of Benjamin Lee Whorf as a young man. ... Unni Wikan (born 1944) is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the wife second wife of the well-known Norwegian social anthropologist Fredrik Barth. ... Clark Wissler (September 18, 1870 _ August 25, 1947) was an American anthropologist. ... Eric Wolf (1923-1999) was an anthropologist best known for his studies of Latin America and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology. ... Sol Worth (August 19, 1922 - August 29, 1977) Born in New York City. ...

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