swap_horiz Aleš Hrdlička Alternatives

1

Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose extended fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands between 1914...

Fieldwork Economic Early 20TH Oceania

9.2 Excellent

2

Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist and anthropologist whose 1925 essay "The Gift" analyzed systems of reciprocal exch...

French Foundational Early 20TH Gift Theory

9.2 Excellent

3

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist and linguist who played a foundational role in the development of cultural a...

Foundational North America Early 20TH Linguistic

9.1 Excellent

4

Alfred Kroeber

Alfred Kroeber was an influential American cultural anthropologist who spent most of his career at the University of Cal...

Cultural North America Museum Early 20TH

8.6 Great

5

Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes (1927–2009) was an American linguist and anthropologist whose work helped establish the field of sociolinguis...

Foundational North America Linguistic Mid 20TH

8.6 Great

6

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan was a foundational American anthropologist and social theorist whose work significantly shaped the di...

Evolutionary 19TH Century Kinship Foundational

8.5 Great

7

Julian Steward

Julian Steward was a prominent American anthropologist active in the mid-20th century who founded the anthropological su...

Academic North America Mid 20TH Cultural Ecology

8.4 Great

8

Melville Herskovits

Melville Herskovits (1895–1963) was an American anthropologist who founded the first major academic program in African s...

Academic Museum Mid 20TH African Diaspora

8.3 Great

9

Laura Nader

Laura Nader is an American anthropologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the fac...

Academic Power Legal North America

8.3 Great

10

Gayle Rubin

Gayle Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist and influential feminist theorist whose work has been foundational to...

North America Feminist Late 20TH Sexuality

8.3 Great

11

Richard Wrangham

Richard Wrangham is a British primatologist and biological anthropologist who serves as the Ruth B. Moore Professor of B...

Contemporary North America Primatology Chimpanzee

8.2 Great

12

Robert Lowie

Robert H. Lowie (1883–1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist who trained under Franz Boas at Columbia Univer...

Academic Kinship North America Early 20TH

8.1 Great

13

Paul Radin

Paul Radin (1883–1959) was an American cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic work focused primarily on Native Ameri...

Cultural Fieldwork North America Trickster

7.7 Good

14

James Mooney

James Mooney was an American ethnologist who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the late 19th and early 20th...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.7 Good

15

William Howells

William White Howells (1908–2005) was an American physical anthropologist at Harvard University known for extensive cran...

Comparative North America Physical Mid 20TH

7.5 Good

16

Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler (1870–1947) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the American Museum of Natural History,...

Academic North America Museum Early 20TH

7.4 Good

17

Frank Hamilton Cushing

Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857–1900) was an American anthropologist associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology who c...

19TH Century Fieldwork North America Museum

7.4 Good

18

Ruth Bunzel

Ruth Leah Bunzel was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University, becoming one of the...

Fieldwork North America Art Early 20TH

7.3 Good

19

Gene Weltfish

Gene Weltfish (1902–1980) was an American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas at Columbia University. She co-aut...

Academic Applied North America Race

7.0 Good

20

Ernest Hooton

Ernest Hooton was an American physical anthropologist who taught at Harvard University and wrote widely for both academi...

North America Harvard Physical Race

5.9 Mediocre