Ann Dunham29 November 1942
Barack Obama's Mother
Zora Neale Hurston07 January 1891
Folklorist, Anthropologist
Margaret Mead16 December 1901
Cultural Anthropologist
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925
Author
Franz Boas09 July 1858
Anthropologist
Paul Farmer26 October 1959
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834
Explorer, Geologist
Alfred L. Kroeber11 June 1876
Cultural Anthropologist
Alan Dundes08 September 1934
Folklorist
Chris McCandless12 February 1968
American adventurer
Kathy Reichs07 July 1948
Writer
Jim Yong Kim08 December 1959
Physician
David Graeber12 February 1961
Anthropologist, University teacher, Writer, Trade
Gregory Bateson09 May 1904
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Madison Grant19 November 1865
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
Edward S. Curtis16 February 1868
Photographer, Anthropologist
Clifford Geertz23 August 1926
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Ruth Benedict05 June 1887
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Lothrop Stoddard29 June 1883
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
Spencer Wells06 April 1969
Geneticist
Robert Ripley25 December 1890
Cartoonist
Edward T. Hall16 May 1914
Anthropologist, Sociologist, University teacher
William John McGee17 April 1853
Explorer, Anthropologist, University teacher
Edward Sapir26 January 1884
Anthropologist, Linguist, Sociolinguist,
Talal Asad1933 AD
anthropologist
Gayle Rubin1949 AD
Anthropologist, university teacher, essayist, LGBT
William Graham Sumner30 October 1840
Anthropologist, Political scientist, Historian,
Carleton S. Coon23 June 1904
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian
Robert Redfield04 December 1897
Anthropologist
Arjun Appadurai04 February 1949
anthropologist, sociologist
Benjamin Lee Whorf24 April 1897
Anthropologist, Linguist
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Marshall Sahlins27 December 1930
Anthropologist, Educationist, University teacher
Ashley Montagu28 June 1905
Anthropologist, University teacher
Johnnetta Cole19 October 1936
Anthropologist and educator
Napoleon Chagnon1938 AD
anthropologist, university teacher
Loren Eiseley03 September 1907
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Poet
Walter J. Ong30 November 1912
Anthropologist, Historian, Writer, University
Marvin Harris18 August 1927
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Harold Courlander
Michael Tomasello18 January 1950
Anthropologist, Psychologist
Donald Johanson28 June 1943
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Dell Hymes07 June 1927
Anthropologist, Linguist, University teacher,
Earnest Hooton20 November 1887
Anthropologist
Eric Wolf01 February 1923
Anthropologist
Eugenie Scott24 October 1945
Anthropologist, University teacher
Pearl Primus29 November 1919
Dancer
Sidney Mintz16 November 1922
Anthropologist, University teacher
Melville J. Herskovits10 September 1895
Anthropologist
George Murdock11 May 1897
Anthropologist
Lewis Binford11 November 1931
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, prehistorian,
Nancy Scheper-Hughes25 September 1944
anthropologist
Leslie White19 January 1900
Anthropologist
Philippe Bourgois1956 AD
anthropologist
Ralph Linton27 February 1893
Anthropologist
Frances Densmore21 May 1867
Anthropologist
Sherry Ortner19 September 1941
Anthropologist, University teacher
Lee Rogers Berger22 December 1965
Paleoanthropologist
Clyde Kluckhohn11 January 1905
Anthropologist
Scott Atran1952 AD
anthropologist, political scientist
Tim D. White24 August 1950
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Colin Turnbull23 November 1924
Anthropologist
Julian Steward31 January 1902
Anthropologist
Elman Service18 May 1915
Anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička29 March 1869
Anthropologist
Oliver La Farge19 December 1901
Writer
William Z. Ripley13 October 1867
Economist
Alice Cunningham Fletcher15 March 1838
Anthropologist
Robert Lowie12 June 1883
Anthropologist
Ella Cara Deloria31 January 1889
Educator
Lewis Henry Morgan21 November 1818
Frank Hamilton Cushing22 July 1857
Anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons27 November 1875
Anthropologist
Clyde Snow07 January 1928
Anthropologist
Kenneth Lee Pike09 June 1912
Linguist
W. Lloyd Warner26 October 1898
Anthropologist
Franz Weidenreich07 June 1873
Anthropologist
Hortense Powdermaker24 December 1900
Cultural anthropologist
Paul Radin02 April 1883
Anthropologist
William Henry Holmes01 December 1846
Explorer
Clark Wissler18 September 1870
Anthropologist
William Bascom23 May 1912
Anthropologist
Akbar S. Ahmed1943 AD
anthropologist, diplomat, writer, university
John R. Swanton19 February 1873
Anthropologist
Marjorie Shostak11 May 1945
Anthropologist
Sol Tax30 October 1907
Anthropologist
Robert John Braidwood29 July 1907
Archaeologists
Francis La Flesche25 December 1857
Ethnologist
Arpad Vass30 August 1959
Anthropologist
Géza Róheim12 September 1891
Psychoanalyst
Frank Speck08 November 1881
Anthropologist
Edward Winslow Gifford14 August 1887
Anthropology
William R. Maples07 August 1937
Anthropologist
Alfred Irving Hallowell28 December 1892
Anthropologist
Frederic Ward Putnam16 April 1839
Anthropologist