Ann Dunham29 November 1942, American
Barack Obama's Mother
Jane Goodall03 April 1934, British
Primatologist
Alice Roberts19 May 1973, British
Anthropologist
Margaret Mead16 December 1901, American
Cultural Anthropologist
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925, American
Author
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
Paul Farmer26 October 1959, American
David Harvey31 October 1935, British
Professor of Anthropology & Geography
Louis Leakey07 August 1903, Kenyan, British
Paleoanthropologist and Archaeologist
Alan Dundes08 September 1934, American
Folklorist
Ralph Regenvanu20 September 1970, Ni-Vanuatu
Ni-Vanuatu Politician
Chris McCandless12 February 1968, American
American adventurer
David Graeber12 February 1961, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Writer, Trade
Pierre Bourdieu01 August 1930, French
Philosopher, Sociologist, Anthropologist,
Kathy Reichs07 July 1948, American
Writer
Bruno Latour22 June 1947, French
Philosopher, Anthropologist, Sociologist,
Jim Yong Kim08 December 1959, American, South Korean
Physician
Paul Ekman15 February 1934
Psychologist, Anthropologist, Sociologist,
Steven Erikson07 October 1959, Canadian
Anthropologist, Writer
Ivan Illich04 September 1926, Austrian
Writer, Historian, Educationist, Philosopher,
Clifford Geertz23 August 1926, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Geert Hofstede02 October 1928
Psychologist, University teacher, Anthropologist,
Gregory Bateson09 May 1904, British, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Ruth Benedict05 June 1887, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Edward T. Hall16 May 1914, American
Anthropologist, Sociologist, University teacher
Gayle Rubin1949 AD, American
Anthropologist, university teacher, essayist, LGBT
Robert Ripley25 December 1890, American
Cartoonist
Arjun Appadurai04 February 1949, Indian, American
anthropologist, sociologist
Mary Leakey06 February 1913, British
Paleoanthropologist
Marshall Sahlins27 December 1930, American
Anthropologist, Educationist, University teacher
Talal Asad1933 AD, American
anthropologist
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard21 September 1902, British
Anthropologist
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown17 January 1881, British
Anthropologist
Donald Johanson28 June 1943, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Mary Douglas25 March 1921, Italian, British
Anthropologist
Dell Hymes07 June 1927, American
Anthropologist, Linguist, University teacher,
Victor Turner28 May 1920, British
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Ernest Gellner09 December 1925, Czech, British
Philosopher
Koenraad Elst07 August 1959, Belgian
Columnist, Anthropologist, Journalist, Writer
Carleton S. Coon23 June 1904, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian
Helen Fisher31 May 1945, Canadian, American
Anthropologist
Napoleon Chagnon1938 AD, American
anthropologist, university teacher
Marvin Harris18 August 1927, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Ashley Montagu28 June 1905, British, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Walter J. Ong30 November 1912, American
Anthropologist, Historian, Writer, University
Jean Rouch31 May 1917, French
Anthropologist, Film director, Screenwriter
Robert Redfield04 December 1897, American
Anthropologist
Loren Eiseley03 September 1907, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Poet
W. H. R. Rivers12 March 1864, British
Anthropologist
Raymond Dart04 February 1893, Australian
Anatomist
Arturo Escobar1952 AD, American
anthropologist
Johnnetta Cole19 October 1936, American
Anthropologist and educator
Eric Wolf01 February 1923, Austrian, American
Anthropologist
Meave Leakey28 July 1942, British
Paleoanthropologist
Michael Tomasello18 January 1950, American
Anthropologist, Psychologist
Tim D. White24 August 1950, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Michael Taussig03 April 1940, Australian
Anthropologist, University teacher
Lewis Binford21 November 1931, American
Archaeologist
George Murdock11 May 1897, American
Anthropologist
Melville J. Herskovits10 September 1895, American
Anthropologist
Earnest Hooton20 November 1887, American
Anthropologist
Leslie White19 January 1900, American
Anthropologist
Yigael Yadin20 March 1917, Israeli
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Politician,
Gilberto Freyre15 March 1900, Brazilian
Sociologist
Philippe Bourgois1956 AD, American
anthropologist
Spencer Wells06 April 1969, American
Geneticist
Sherry Ortner19 September 1941, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
José María Arguedas18 January 1911, Peruvian
Novelist
Sidney Mintz16 November 1922, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Julian Steward31 January 1902, American
Anthropologist
Nancy Scheper-Hughes25 September 1944, American
anthropologist
Pearl Primus29 November 1919, American
Dancer
Ralph Linton27 February 1893, American
Anthropologist
Colin Turnbull23 November 1924, British, American
Anthropologist
Jack Goody27 July 1919, British
Anthropologist, University teacher, Non-fiction
Franz Weidenreich07 June 1873, German, American
Anthropologist
Lee Rogers Berger22 December 1965, American, South African
Paleoanthropologist
Clyde Kluckhohn11 January 1905, American
Anthropologist
Eugenie Scott24 October 1945, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Frances Densmore21 May 1867, American
Anthropologist
Theodor Nöldeke02 March 1836, German
Orientalist
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl10 April 1857, French
Scholar
Fei Xiaotong02 November 1910, Chinese
Anthropologist
Dame Anne Salmond16 November 1945, New Zealander
Anthropologist
Akbar S. Ahmed1943 AD, Pakistani, American
anthropologist, diplomat, writer, university
Arnold Gehlen29 January 1904, German
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Elman Service18 May 1915, American
Anthropologist
Jacques Soustelle03 February 1912, French
Anthropologist
Te Rangi Hīroa30 September 1877, New Zealander
Doctor
Aleš Hrdlička29 March 1869, Czech, American
Anthropologist
Max Gluckman26 January 1911, British, South African
Anthropologist
Frank Hamilton Cushing22 July 1857, American
Anthropologist
Manuel Elizalde08 November 1936, Filipino
Businessman
Ella Cara Deloria31 January 1889, American
Educator