Biographies: Anthropologist

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Anthropologist

• Adams, Robert McCormick, Jr., American anthropologist
• Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, American anthropologist and historian
• Bastian, Adolf, German anthropologist
• Benedict, Ruth Fulton, American anthropologist
• Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, German naturalist and anthropologist
• Boas, Franz, German-American anthropologist
• Coon, Carleton Stevens, American anthropologist
• Dorris, Michael, American anthropologist, writer
• Eggan, Fred Russell, American anthropologist
• Eiseley, Loren Corey, American anthropologist
• Eliade, Mircea, American philosopher and historian of comparative religion
• Evans-Pritchard, Edward Evan, English social anthropologist
• Firth, Sir Raymond William, British social anthropologist
• Fortes, Meyer, British anthropologist
• Frazer, Sir James George, Scottish classicist and anthropologist
• Freyre, Gilberto, Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist
• Gatschet, Albert Samuel, American ethnologist
• Geertz, Clifford James, American cultural anthropologist
• Gluckman, Herman Max, British anthropologist
• Greenberg, Joseph Harold, American anthropologist and linguist
• Hallowell, Alfred Irving, American anthropologist
• Harris, Marvin, American anthropologist
• Herskovits, Melville Jean, American anthropologist
• Heyerdahl, Thor, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist
• Hodge, Frederick Webb, American anthropologist
• Hooten, Earnest Albert, American anthropologist
• Hrdlička, AleÅ¡, American anthropologist
• Kluckhohn, Clyde Kay Maben, American anthropologist
• Kroeber, Alfred Louis, American anthropologist
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude, French anthropologist
• Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, French philosopher
• La Farge, Oliver, American writer and anthropologist
• Leach, Edmund Ronald, British anthropologist
• Lewis, Oscar, American anthropologist
• Linton, Ralph, American anthropologist
• Lowie, Robert Harry, American anthropologist
• Malinowski, Bronislaw, English anthropologist
• Mauss, Marcel, French sociologist and anthropologist
• Mead, Margaret, American anthropologist
• Montagu, Ashley, British-American anthropologist
• Morgan, Lewis Henry, American anthropologist
• Murdock, George Peter, American anthropologist
• Róheim, Géza, Hungarian anthropologist and psychoanalyst
• Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald, British anthropologist
• Radin, Paul, American anthropologist
• Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist
• Redfield, Robert, American anthropologist and sociologist
• Rivers, William Halse Rivers, British anthropologist
• Schmidt, Wilhelm, German linguist and anthropologist
• Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, American ethnologist
• Steward, Julian Haynes, American anthropologist
• Strong, William Duncan, American anthropologist
• Thomas, Cyrus, American anthropologist and entomologist
• Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett, English anthropologist
• Wagley, Charles Walter, American anthropologist
• Weidenreich, Franz, German anatomist and physical anthropologist
• White, Leslie Alvin, American anthropologist
• Wissler, Clark, American anthropologist