Napoleon Chagnon (1938) studied the Yanomami people and has written many books on
the subject, among others one especially successful called Yanomamo: The Fierce People
Jane Goodall (1934) conducted a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life,
as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania
Grover Krantz (1931-2002) devoted his academic career to the study of bigfoot
Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
Rene Girard (1923)
Eric Wolf (1923-1999)
John Marco Allegro (1923-1988)
Mary Leakey (1913-1996) discovered the first skull of a fossil ape
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908) became one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals
by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) is most regarded for his writings on shamanism, yoga and cosmological myths,
his thinking has been greatly influenced by the work of the Traditionalist School founded by René Guénon
Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) author of " Coming of Age in Samoa"
Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (1901-1955) is best known for research in the Pacific and her
pioneering role as one of the British Commonwealth's first female anthropologists
Marcel Griaule (1898-1965) did studies with the Dogon of West Africa
and pioneered ethnographic field studies in France
Raymond Dart (1893-1988) discovered a fossil of Australopithecus at Taung in Northwestern South Africa
Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960)
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American
structural linguistics and one of the creators of what is now called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955)
(1862-1939) is known for first noting the Westermarck effect
in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults,
regardless of their genetic relationship
James Mooney (1861-1921) lived for several years among the Cherokee,
his most notable work was his ethnographic study of the Ghost Dance
Franz Boas (1858-1942) was the teacher of Margaret Meade
Eugene Dubois (1858-1940) earned world-wide fame with the discovery of Homo erectus in Java
Paul Pierre Broca (1824-1880) discovered the speech center
(now known as the Broca's area or the third circumvolution of the frontal lobe)
Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) is considered to be the "Father of American anthropology,"
although his professional life was in the field of law, he was an amateur scholar best
known for his work on cultural evolution and Native Americans
Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)