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American anthropologists

36 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Alan LomaxPerson · Film memorabiliaAlan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music during the 20th century.
Alpheus Hyatt VerrillPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Hyatt Verrill c.
Anita Álvarez de WilliamsPhotographer · PhotographyAnita Álvarez de Williams (born 1931) is an American anthropologist, photographer and historian Mexicali-based expert on the Cocopah who wrote the first full-length synthesis of…
Ashraf GhaniAuthor · BooksMohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician and economist who served as the 8th and last president of Afghanistan from 2014 until his government was…
Chad OliverAuthor · BooksSymmes Chadwick Oliver (March 30, 1928 – August 9, 1993) was an American anthropologist and science fiction and Western writer.
Clarence Bloomfield MoorePhotographer · PhotographyClarence Bloomfield Moore (January 14, 1852 – March 24, 1936), more commonly known as C.B. Moore, was an American archaeologist and writer.
Daniel Garrison BrintonAuthor · BooksDaniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837July 31, 1899) was an American archeologist, ethnologist, and surgeon.
David Dean ShulmanAuthor · BooksDavid Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949) is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam,…
Dian FosseyAuthor · BooksDian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her…
Edward S. MorseAuthor · BooksEdward Morse (disambiguation)Edward Morse
Gary ChapmanAuthor · BooksHe was born in Winston-Salem.
George Bird GrinnellAuthor · BooksGeorge Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
George DevereuxAuthor · BooksIllustration — George Devereux
Gottlieb SchumacherAuthor · Maps and atlasesIllustration — Gottlieb Schumacher
Gustav BrühlAuthor · BooksGustav Brühl (born 31 May 1826 in Herdorf, Prussia; died 16 February 1903 in Cincinnati) was an American physician, poet and archaeologist.
Henry HarpendingAuthor · BooksHenry Cosad Harpending (January 13, 1944 – April 3, 2016) was an American anthropologist and distinguished professor at the University of Utah, best known for his 2009 book The 10,000 Year…
James MooneyAuthor · BooksJames Mooney (February 10, 1861 – December 22, 1921) was an American ethnographer who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology for thirty-six years and studied North American,…
Joanne GreenbergAuthor · BooksJoanne Greenberg (born September 24, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who published some of her work under the pen name of Hannah Green.
John Henry HaynesPhotographer · PhotographyJohn Henry Haynes (27 January 1849 – 29 June 1910) was an American traveller, archaeologist and photographer, best known for his work at the first two American archaeological excavations in…
John Savage BollesDesigner · DesignJohn Savage Bolles (June 25, 1905 – March 5, 1983) was an American architect. He was most active in San Francisco, and the designer of Candlestick Park.
Lars KrutakPhotographer · PhotographyLars Krutak (April 14, 1971) is an American anthropologist, photographer, and writer known for his research about tattoo and its cultural background.
Lewis H. MorganAuthor · BooksLewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 – December 17, 1881) was an American anthropologist and social theorist, who worked as a railroad lawyer.
Loren EiseleyAuthor · BooksLoren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the…
Margaret MeadAuthor · BooksMargaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.
Mary Doria RussellAuthor · Books
Michael RockefellerPhotographer · PhotographyMichael Rockefeller was an American anthropologist, photographer, explorer and ethnologist (1938–1961). He was born in Manhattan and died in Asmat.
Natalie CurtisPerson · Music memorabiliaNatalie Curtis, later Natalie Curtis Burlin (26 April 1875 – 23 October 1921) was an American ethnomusicologist.
Nora Marks DauenhauerAuthor · BooksNora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017) was a Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska.
Paul FarmerAuthor · BooksPaul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician.
Saul BellowAuthor · BooksSaul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was an American writer.
Susan HillerPhotographer · PhotographySusan Hiller (March 7, 1940 – January 28, 2019) was a US-born, British conceptual artist who lived in London, United Kingdom.
Theodora KroeberAuthor · BooksTheodora Kroeber (Theodora Covel Kracaw; March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of several Native Californian cultures.
Vertamae GrosvenorAuthor · BooksVertamae Smart-Grosvenor (April 4, 1937 – September 3, 2016) was an American culinary anthropologist, griot, poet, food writer, and broadcaster on public media.
Vyacheslav IvanovAuthor · BooksVyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist…
William James SidisAuthor · BooksWilliam James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with mathematical and linguistic skills. He was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author.
Zora Neale HurstonPerson · Film memorabiliaZora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.

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