| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Adolph Bandelier |
Anthropologist |
6-Aug-1840 |
18-Mar-1914 |
Native cultures of the American southwest |
| R. H. Barlow |
Author |
18-May-1918 |
2-Jan-1951 |
Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft |
| Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
| Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
5-Apr-2011 |
Hepatitis B vaccine |
| Franz Boas |
Anthropologist |
9-Jul-1858 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Father of American Anthropology |
| Pierre Bourdieu |
Anthropologist |
1-Aug-1930 |
23-Jan-2002 |
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste |
| Loren Eiseley |
Anthropologist |
3-Sep-1907 |
9-Jul-1977 |
The Firmament of Time |
| Edward Evans-Pritchard |
Anthropologist |
21-Sep-1902 |
11-Sep-1973 |
Theories of Primitive Religion |
| Sir Raymond Firth |
Anthropologist |
25-Mar-1901 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Economic Anthropology |
| Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
| Sir James Frazer |
Anthropologist |
1-Jan-1854 |
7-May-1941 |
The Golden Bough |
| Biruté Galdikas |
Anthropologist |
10-May-1946 |
|
The Mother of All Orangutans |
| Francis Galton |
Anthropologist |
16-Feb-1822 |
17-Jan-1911 |
Word Association Test |
| Clifford Geertz |
Anthropologist |
23-Aug-1926 |
30-Oct-2006 |
Thick Description |
| David Graeber |
Anthropologist |
12-Feb-1961 |
|
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology |
| Horatio Hale |
Anthropologist |
3-May-1817 |
28-Dec-1896 |
Ethnologist studied polynesia |
| Edward T. Hall |
Anthropologist |
16-May-1914 |
20-Jul-2009 |
The Silent Language |
| Marvin Harris |
Anthropologist |
18-Aug-1927 |
25-Oct-2001 |
Anthropological historian |
| Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
| Donald Johanson |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Discovered "Lucy" fossils |
| Alfred Kroeber |
Anthropologist |
11-Jun-1876 |
5-Oct-1960 |
Pioneer in American Anthropology |
| Louis Leakey |
Anthropologist |
7-Aug-1903 |
1-Oct-1972 |
Discovered Homo Habilis |
| Mary Leakey |
Anthropologist |
6-Feb-1913 |
9-Dec-1996 |
Discovered Proconsul |
| Richard Leakey |
Anthropologist |
19-Dec-1944 |
|
Excavated Koobi Fora |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
1-Nov-2009 |
French anthropologist |
| Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Robert H. Lowie |
Anthropologist |
12-Jun-1883 |
21-Sep-1957 |
American ethnologist |
| Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
| Marcel Mauss |
Sociologist |
10-May-1872 |
10-Feb-1950 |
The Gift |
| Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Ashley Montagu |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1905 |
26-Nov-1999 |
The Natural Superiority of Women |
| Lewis Henry Morgan |
Anthropologist |
21-Nov-1818 |
17-Dec-1881 |
Ancient Society |
| A. R. Radcliffe-Brown |
Anthropologist |
17-Jan-1881 |
24-Oct-1955 |
Father of modern social anthropology |
| Edward Sapir |
Anthropologist |
26-Jan-1884 |
4-Feb-1939 |
Anthropological linguist |
| Victor W. Turner |
Anthropologist |
28-May-1920 |
1983 |
The Drums of Affliction |
| Edward Tylor |
Anthropologist |
2-Oct-1832 |
2-Jan-1917 |
Founder of cultural anthropology |
| Edvard Westermarck |
Anthropologist |
20-Nov-1862 |
3-Sep-1939 |
The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas |
| Leslie A. White |
Anthropologist |
19-Jan-1900 |
31-Mar-1975 |
The Science of Culture |
