1. Margaret Mead (1901)

American Anthropologist

Anthropologist whose reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian culture amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Despite being a religious woman, she gained controversy for...

2. Ernest Becker (1924)

American Anthropologist

Cultural anthropologist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for his book The Denial of Death in which he argues that human civilization itself is essentially an elaborate defense mechanism...

3. Mary Catherine Bateson (1939)

American Anthropologist

An American cultural anthropologist and author, she published her tenth novel, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom, in 2010. Her other works include Composing a Life (1991)...

4. Donald Johanson (1943)

American Anthropologist

Chicago-born paleoanthropologist who was part of the team that, in 1974, discovered the "Lucy," a hominid australopithecine fossil in Ethiopia. He also founded the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley,...

5. Paul Farmer (1959)

American Anthropologist

American physician and anthropologist most famous for his humanitarian efforts in providing health care to impoverished countries around the world. He served as the editor-in-chief of Health and Human Rights...

6. Marvin Harris (1927)

American Anthropologist

Controversial anthropologist and writer who helped developed cultural materialism and environmental determinism. He fused the ideas of Karl Marx and Thomas Malthus, combining an emphasis on production with the impact of demographics on...

7. Michael Wesch (1975)

American Anthropologist

Michael Lee Wesch is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Wesch's work also includes media ecology and the emerging field of digital ethnography where he studies the...

8. Gene Weltfish (1902)

American Anthropologist

Gene Weltfish was an American anthropologist and historian working at Columbia University from 1928 to 1953. She had studied with Franz Boas and was a specialist in the culture...

9. Beatrice Blyth Whiting (1914)

American Anthropologist

Beatrice Blyth Whiting was an American anthropologist specializing in the comparative study of child development. Together with her husband John Whiting she was a key figure in the Harvard Department...

10. Kristen Gremillion (1958)

American Anthropologist

Kristen Johnson Gremillion is an American anthropologist whose areas of specialization include paleoethnobotany origins of agriculture the prehistory of eastern North America human paleoecology and paleodiet and the evolutionary theory....

11. Jeffrey Meldrum (1958)

American Anthropologist

Don Jeffrey Jeff Meldrum is a Full Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and a Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Meldrum is also Adjunct Professor of...

12. Joan Halifax (Unknow)

American Anthropologist

Joan Jiko Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist roshi anthropologist ecologist civil rights activist hospice caregiver and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as...

13. Raymond C. Kelly (1942)

American Anthropologist

Raymond Case Kelly is an American cultural anthropologist and ethnologist who has written on the origin of warfare and on the basis of social inequality in human societies.

14. Richard Shweder (1945)

American Anthropologist

Richard Allan Shweder is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology. He is currently Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of...

15. James Quesada (1953)

American Anthropologist

Dr. James Quesada is a Nicaraguan American Anthropologist and professor at San Francisco State University's Department of Anthropology. .

16. Eugenie Scott (1945)

American Anthropologist

Eugenie Carol Scott is an American physical anthropologist a former university professor and a one of the strongest voices challenging the teaching of young earth creationism and intelligent design in...

17. Charles L. Briggs (1953)

American Anthropologist

Charles Leslie Briggs is an anthropologist who works at the University of California Berkeley USA. Before working at Berkeley he held a position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department...

18. Kay Warren (1947)

American Anthropologist

Kay Barbara Warren is an American academic anthropologist known for her extensive research and publications in cultural anthropology studies. Initially trained as an anthropologist specializing in field studies of Latin...

19. Meredith Small (1950)

American Anthropologist

Meredith Francesca Small is a Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University and popular science author. She was born in St. Louis Missouri. She has been widely published in academic journals...

20. Terrence Deacon (1950)

American Anthropologist

Terrence William Deacon is an American anthropologist. He taught at Harvard for eight years relocated to Boston University in 1992 and is currently Professor and Chair of Anthropology Professor in...

21. Barry Bogin (1950)

American Anthropologist

Barry Bogin is an American physical anthropologist trained at Temple University that researches physical growth in Guatemalan Maya children and is a theorist upon the evolutionary origins of human childhood....

22. Stephen O. Murray (Unknow)

American Anthropologist

Stephen O. Murray is a gay sociologist anthropologist and independent scholar based in San Francisco California. A member of the second class at James Madison College within Michigan State University...

23. Richard Guy Condon (Unknow)

American Anthropologist

Rick Condon was an American anthropologist who specialized in the study of Inuit. He was curator of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and editor of the international journal Arctic Anthropology.

24. Dia Cha (1962)

American Anthropologist

Dia Cha is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud Minnesota where she teaches courses in cultural anthropology ethnic studies Southeast Asian...

25. Tobias Hecht (1964)

American Anthropologist

Tobias Hecht is an American anthropologist ethnographer and translator. He received his Ph. D.

26. Katya Gibel Mevorach (1952)

American Anthropologist

Katya Gibel Mevorach is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Grinnell College. Under the name Katya Gibel Azoulay she is author of an explication and theory of identities Black...

27. Joseph Tobin (Unknow)

American Anthropologist

Joseph Tobin is the Elizabeth Garrard Hall Professor of Education in the College of Education at The University of Georgia.

28. Daphne Berdahl (1964)

American Anthropologist

Daphne Berdahl was an anthropologist known for her work on Eastern Germany and Post-socialist Europe. Her work on gender and consumption as well as her writing on post-communist nostalgia has...

29. Sarah Franklin (1960)

American Anthropologist

Sarah Franklin is an American anthropologist who has substantially contributed to the fields of feminism gender theory and the social study of reproductive and genetic technology. She has conducted fieldwork...

30. John Traphagan (1961)

American Anthropologist

John Willis Traphagan is Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology and Centennial Commission in the Liberal Arts Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Traphagan's research has largely focused...

31. Tom Boellstorff (1969)

American Anthropologist

Tom Boellstorff is an anthropologist based at the University of California Irvine. In his career to date his interests have included the anthropology of sexuality the anthropology of globalization the...

32. Henry Schoolcraft (1793)

American Anthropologist

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer geologist and ethnologist noted for his early studies of Native American cultures as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of...

33. Margaret B. Blackman (Unknow)

American Anthropologist

Margaret B. Blackman is an anthropologist known for her work with the Haida First Nation of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia Canada beginning in the 1970s. She is...

34. J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat (1970)

American Anthropologist

J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat is an American cultural anthropologist and the author of Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti.

35. Lars Krutak (1971)

American Anthropologist

Dr. Lars Krutak is an American anthropologist photographer and writer known for his research about tattoo and its cultural background. He produced and hosted the 10-part documentary series Tattoo Hunter...

36. Loren Eiseley (1907)

American Anthropologist

Loren Eiseley was an American anthropologist educator philosopher and natural science writer who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. During this period he received more than...

37. Wendy Rose (1948)

American Anthropologist

Rose is a Hopi/Miwok writer. Having grown up in an environment which placed little emphasis on her Native American background much of her verse deals with her search for her...

38. Stephen Porter Dunn (1928)

American Anthropologist

Stephen Porter Dunn was a U. S. anthropologist specializing in ethnic groups of the Soviet Union. He translated and edited a number of works on the topic from the Russian...

39. Kari Bruwelheide (1967)

American Anthropologist

Kari Bruwelheide is an American archaeologist and anthropologist. She is known for her work as a physical anthropologist bioarchaeologist forensic anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History....

40. Noel T. Boaz (1952)

American Anthropologist

Noel T. Boaz is a famous American anthropologist, who was born on February 8, 1952 in United States. Noel Thomas Boaz (born 8 February 1952) is an American biological anthropologist,...

41. Katherine Ann Dettwyler (1955)

American Anthropologist

Katherine Ann Dettwyler is a famous American anthropologist, who was born on February 3, 1955 in United States. Katherine Ann Dettwyler was born on February 3, 1955. She earned her...