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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

3

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

14

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

15

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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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

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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

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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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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