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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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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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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

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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

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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

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Elinor Ochs

Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, recogni...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

8.1 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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Bambi Schieffelin

Bambi B. Schieffelin is an American linguistic anthropologist and professor at New York University. She is a foundationa...

Contemporary Academic North America Linguistic

7.7 Good

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Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist whose research explores the intersection of media, culture, and social activ...

Contemporary Academic Media North America

7.6 Good

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Sol Tax

Sol Tax was an American anthropologist best known for developing the theoretical framework of "action anthropology" duri...

Academic Applied North America Mid 20TH

7.5 Good

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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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Fred Eggan

Fred Eggan was an American anthropologist associated with the University of Chicago, recognized for his detailed ethnogr...

Academic Social Structure Kinship North America

7.4 Good

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Elsie Clews Parsons

Elsie Clews Parsons (1875–1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, and folklorist who conducted extensive ethn...

Academic Feminist Folklore Early 20TH

7.4 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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C. Loring Brace

C. Loring Brace was an American physical anthropologist at the University of Michigan who argued against racial typology...

North America Race Late 20TH Fossils

7.3 Good

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Louise Lamphere

Louise Lamphere is an American anthropologist who gained prominence as co-editor, with Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, of th...

Academic North America Feminist Late 20TH

7.2 Good

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Aleš Hrdlička

Czech-American physical anthropologist who founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in 1918 and served as t...

North America Museum Physical Measurement

6.5 Fair

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Alice Fletcher

American anthropologist (1838–1923) known for her fieldwork with Omaha and Nez Perce peoples and her influential role in...

Music 19TH Century Applied North America

6.0 Fair

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Ernest Hooton

American physical anthropologist at Harvard whose Up from the Ape (1931) popularized the field, though his racial classi...

North America Harvard Physical Race

5.9 Mediocre