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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist whose 1928 book "Coming of Age in Samoa" examined adolescent sexua...

Cultural Fieldwork Oceania Gender

9.2 Excellent

2

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

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Edward Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor was a British anthropologist whose 1871 book "Primitive Culture" provided a foundational definition...

Evolutionary 19TH Century British Foundational

9.2 Excellent

4

Bronislaw Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist who is credited with establishing the modern practice of ethnog...

Polish Social Fieldwork Past

9.2 Excellent

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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

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Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth (1928–2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who significantly advanced the study of ethnicity and ec...

Ethnicity Ecology Fieldwork Mid 20TH

8.8 Great

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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) was an Omaha ethnologist who worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithso...

19TH Century Cultural Indigenous Native American

8.8 Great

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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

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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

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Waldemar Bogoras

Waldemar Bogoras was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and linguist whose fieldwork among the Chukchi of northeast...

Russia 19TH Century Siberian Shamanism

8.6 Great

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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

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William Robertson Smith

William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, biblical scholar, and professor of Arabic at the University of Cambr...

Sacrifice 19TH Century Comparative Religion

8.5 Great

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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

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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

Ruth Landes

Ruth Landes (1908–1991) was an American anthropologist whose pioneering fieldwork focused on issues of race, gender, and...

Fieldwork North America Race Gender

7.5 Good

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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

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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

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Aleš Hrdlička

Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech-born American physical anthropologist who led the Division of Physical Anthropology at the Uni...

North America Museum Physical Measurement

6.5 Fair

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Alice Fletcher

Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American anthropologist and ethnologist who conducted fieldwork with Indigenous peoples...

Music 19TH Century Applied North America

6.0 Fair

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Daniel Garrison Brinton

Daniel Garrison Brinton was an American physician, anthropologist, and ethnologist who lived from 1837 to 1899. He taugh...

Language 19TH Century Foundational North America

5.8 Mediocre