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Anthropologists On E2

This is the Anthropologists Metanode, an index of writeups about anthropologists (including: anthropologists, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ethnographers, ethnologists, linguists, physical anthropologists, primatologists, social anthropologists, etc.) on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg anthropod or E2_Science.

• Gregory Bateson
  Applied cybernetic theory to anthropology.
• Ruth Benedict
  Student of Mead and Boas who developed the culture and personality school.
• Lewis Binford
  Archeologist who championed an interpretive methodology for archeology
• Franz Boas
  Early 20th century ethnologist who studied First Nations peoples.
• Mary Douglas
  20th century structuralist symbolist
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard*
  
• Raymond Firth*
  
• Dian Fossey
  Primatologist who specialised in mountain gorillas.
• James George Frazer
  Author of the pioneering The Golden Bough.
• Birute Galdikas
  Primatologist who studied orangutans.
• Clifford Geertz
  Noted ethnographer and essayist who champions "thick description".
• Jane Goodall
  Primatologist who made a revolutionary study of chimpanzees.
• Marvin Harris
  Generalist and formulator of cultural materialism.
• Melville J. Herskovits
  Wrote about cultural linkages between African Americans and Africans.
• Donald Johanson
  Paleoanthropologist who found the Lucy skeleton.
• Edmund Leach*
  
• Louis Leakey
  Paleoanthropologist known for Olduvai Gorge finds.
• Mary Leakey
  Paleoanthropologist credited with many prehuman fossil finds.
• Richard Leakey
  Son of Louis and Mary, also a paleoanthropologist.
• Richard Lee
  Conducted groundbreaking studies of !Kung hunter-gatherers.
• Bronislaw Malinowski
  "Father" of anthropological fieldwork.
• Anthony Mattina
  Linguist and expert on First Nations languages
• Margaret Mead
  Pioneer in the field of cross-cultural gender studies.
• Lewis Henry Morgan
  Early evolutionary anthropologist.
• Desmond Morris
  Zoologist turned anthropologist and author of The Naked Ape
• Max Müller
  19th century German Indologist.
• G. Prakash Reddy
  Indian who made an ethnographic study of Denmark.
• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown*
  
• Gladys Reichard
  Linguist and ethographer.
• Edward Sapir
  Linguist and ethnographer, co-formulator the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Edward Tylor
  "Father of anthropology", first anthropology professor at Oxford
• Benjamin Lee Whorf
  Linguist and co-formulator of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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Listed chronologically, by year of birth (where known)

• Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881)
• Max Müller (1823-1900)
• Edward Tylor (1832-1917)
• James George Frazer (1854-1941)
• Franz Boas (1858-1942)
• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995)
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
• Edward Sapir (1884-1939)
• Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
• Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963)
• Gladys Reichard (1893-1955)
• Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)
• Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
• E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902-1973)
• Raymond Firth (1902-2002)
• Louis Leakey (1903-1972)
• Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
• Edmund Leach (1910-1989)
• Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
• Mary Douglas (1921- )
• Clifford Geertz (1923- )
• Marvin Harris (1927-2001)
• Desmond Morris (1928- )
• Lewis Binford (1930- )
• Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
• Jane Goodall (1934- )
• G. Prakash Reddy (1941- )
• Donald Johanson (1943- )
• Richard Leakey (1944- )
• Birute Galdikas (1946- )

An`thro*pol"o*gist (#), n.

One who is versed in anthropology.

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