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Anthropological Biographies

American anthropologists -- Wikipedia

Anthropologists by nationality -- Wikipedia

Jane Goodall

Reason for Hope:
A Spiritual Journey

Celebration of Women Anthropologists

Academy of Achievement

Anthropologists -- Life and Works -- Social Science Information Gateway, University of Bristol

Anthropological Biographies-- Mankato State University (MSU)

Biographies-- Anthro.Net

Culture and Personality Biographies

Lives, the Biography Resource-- The largest guide to biography sites on the Web

www.biography.com -- short biographical sketches

Anthropology Biographies -- encyclopedia.com

Anthropologists -- Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society

List of anthropologists -- Wikipedia

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• Victor Barnouw (1915 - 1989) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980)
  • Gregory Bateson -- (MSU)
  • About Gregory Bateson -- Candice Bradley
    
    
• Jim Belote
  
  
• Linda Belote
  
  
• Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948) -- (MSU)
  • Ruth Benedct -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Franz Boas (1858 - 1942) -- (MSU)
  • Franz Boas -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Philip K. Bock -- Psychological Anthropology
  
  
• Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868) -- (MSU)
  • Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Erika Bourguignon (1924 - present)
  • (MSU)
  • Psychological Anthropology
    
    
• C. Loring Brace (1930 - Present) -- (MSU)

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• Napoleon Chagnon (1938 - present) -- (MSU)
  • Napoleon Chagnon -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Teilhard de Chardin (1881 - 1955)
  
  
• Noam Chomsky (1928 - Present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Class Biographies
  • Culture and Personality
    
    
• Michael Douglas Coe (1929 - Present) -- (MSU)
• Don Crabtree (1912-1980) -- (MSU)
• Culture and Personality Biographies
• Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)

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• Raymond Dart (1893 - 1988) -- (MSU)
  • "Not slowing down, Smithford authors work on scientist"
    
    
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
  
  
• Dead Sociologists Index -- Larry R. Ridener
  
  
• Frances Densmore (1867 - 1957) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Irven Devore (1935 - Present) -- (MSU)
  • Irven DeVore -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Bishop Diego de Landa -- (MSU)
  
  
• Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900 - 1975 ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Michael Dorris (1945-1997) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Cora Du Bois (1903 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Eugene Dubois (1858 - 1940)
  • Jim Foley
  • Eugene Dubois -- (MSU)
    
    
• Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) -- (MSU)

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• Dorothy Way Eggan (1901 - 1965) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Frederick Russell Eggan (1906 - 1991) -- (MSU)
  
  
• E.E.Evans-Pritchard (1902 - 1973) -- (MSU)

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• Dian Fossey
  • Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) -- (MSU)
  • Dian Fossey (1932 - 1985) -- Mount Holyoke College
    
    
• George M. Foster (1913 - 2006) -- (MSU)
  
  
• James George Frazer (1854 - 1941) -- (MSU)
  
  
• John Frere (1740-1802) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Freud and the Web: Culture and Personality in Cyberspace -- Doug Davis
  
  
• Carlos Fuentes -- Academy of Achievement

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• Phineas Gage
  
  
• Biruté Galdikas
  • Great Canadian Scientists
  • The Stone Way
    
    
• Francis Galton -- BBC Radio 4 Science
  
  
• Clifford Geertz(1923 - ) -- (MSU)
  • Clifford Geertz -- Wikipedia
  • HyperGeertz -- Ingo Mörth and Gerhard Fröhlich
  • Pioneering Anthropologist Clifford Geertz Dies -- News@Princeton (10/31/06)
    
    
• Francis J. Gillen (1855 - 1912) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alexander Alexandrovich Goldenweiser -- (MSU)
  
  
• Jane Goodall (1934 - )
  
  
• Ward Goodenough (1919 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Stephen Gould (1941 - ) -- (MSU)

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• Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
  
  
• Edward T. Hall (1914 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alfred Irving Hallowell (1892-1974) -- (MSU)
  • Alfred Irving Hallowell -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Harry Harlow
  
  
• Marvin Harris (1927 - 2001) -- (MSU)
  • Marvin Harris -- Wikipedia
    
    

• Karl G. Heider (1935 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Melville Jean Herskovits (1895 - 1963) -- (MSU)
  • Melville J. Herskovits -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Marie Inez Hilger (1891 - 1977) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Earnest Albert Hooten (1887-1954) -- (MSU)
  • Earnest Hooton -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Ales Hrdlicka -- (MSU)
  
  
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
• The Athenæum
• (MSU)
• UC Berkeley
• The Huxley File -- Charles Blinderman and David Joyce
• Thomas Henry Huxley -- Daniel G. Blackburn

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• Donald Johanson -- (MSU)
  • Donald Johanson -- Wikipedia
  • Donald C. Johanson -- Academy of Achievement
    
    
• The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
  
  
• Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) -- (MSU)

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• Sir Arthur Keith (1866 - 1955) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Sharon Kemp
  
  
• Alfred Kidder (1885 - 1963) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Clyde Kluckhohn (1905 - 1960) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alfred Kroeber (1876 - 1960) -- (MSU)
  • Alfred L. Kroeber -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Theodora Kroeber-Quinn (1897-1979) -- (MSU)
  • Theodora Kroeber -- Wikipedia

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• Ruth Landes (1908 - 1991) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Edmund Ronald Leach (1910-1989) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Louis Seymour Bazatt Leakey (1903-1972) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Mary Douglas Leakey (1913 - 1996) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Richard Leakey (1940)
  
  
• Jean Baptiste Lemarck (1744-1829) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Robert A. LeVine -- (MSU)
  
  
• Claude Levi-Strauss (1908 - ) -- (MSU)
  

• Roger Amos Lewin (1946 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Oscar Lewis (1914-1970) -- (MSU)
  • Oscar Lewis -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
  
  
• Ralph Linton (1893-1953) -- (MSU)
  • Ralph Linton -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Owen C. Lovejoy -- (MSU)
  
  
• Robert H. Lowie (1883 - 1957) -- (MSU)
  • Robert Lowie -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Lucretius [Titus Lucretius Carus] (99/94 - 55/51 b.c.)
  
  
• Sir Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)
  • SIR CHARLES LYELL & PROF. T. H. HUXLEY -- D. I. Loizos
  • (MSU)
  • Biography of Charles Lyell, 1797-1875 -- Missouri Association for Creation
    (From: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1910-1911)

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• Richard Stockton MacNeish (1918 -2001) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Henry James Sumner Maine (1822 - 1888) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Bronislaw Malinowski (April 7, 1884 – May 16, 1942) -- Wikipedia
  • Bronislaw Malinowski (1884 - 1942) -- (MSU)
    
    
• Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
  
  
• Robert Manners (1913-1996) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Ernst Mayr -- Academy of Achievement
  
  
• Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
  • Margaret Mead -- Wikipedia
  • Mead, Margaret -- National Academy of Sciences: Biographical Memoirs
    
    
• Betty Meggers (1921 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
  
  
• René Millon
  
  
• Horace Miner (1912 - 1993) -- (MSU)
  • Horace Mitchell Miner -- Wikipedia
    
    
• N. Scott Momaday -- Academy of Achievement
  
  
• Ashley Montagu (1905 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Lewis Henry Morgan (1818 - 1881) -- (MSU)
  • Lewis H. Morgan -- Wikipedia

• Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1883 - 1948) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Hallam Leonard Movius (1907 - 1987) -- (MSU)
  
  
• George Peter Murdock (1897-1985) -- (MSU)

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• Siegfried F. Nadel (1903-1956) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Laura Nader -- (MSU)
  • Laura Nader -- Wikipedia
    
    
• James V. Neel

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• Alfonso Ortiz (1939 - 1997) -- (MSU)

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• Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868)
  • "THE INTUITION OF BOUCHER DE PERTHES" -- Pietro Gaietto
  • Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868) -- (MSU)
    
    
• John Pfeiffer -- (MSU)
  
  
• Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) -- (MSU)
  
  
• David Pilbeam (1940 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Piltdown "Man" (1912 - 1953)
  
  
• Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827 - 1900) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909 - 1985) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Dennis Puleston (1940 - 1978) -- (MSU)

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• Quetzalcoatl

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• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881 - 1955) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Paul Radin (1883 - 1959) -- (MSU)
  • Paul Radin -- Wikipedia
    
    
• William Rathje (1945 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  

• John Ray (1628-1705)
  
  
• Robert Redfield (1897-1958) -- (MSU)
  • Robert Redfield -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Robert Ritzenthaler (1911 - 1980) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Tim Roufs

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• Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Marshall Sahlins (1930 - ) -- (MSU)
  • Marshall Sahlins -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Julian Samora (1920 - 1996) -- (MSU)
  
  
• William T. Sanders -- (MSU)
  
  
• Edward Sapir -- (MSU)
  
  
• Vincent M. Sarich (1934 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• George B. Schaller (1933 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Linda Schele (1942-1998)
  • (MSU)
  • "Linda Schele, Maya Glyphs, and Maya Myth"
    
    
• Henry Schoolcraft -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Elman Service (1915 - 1996) -- (MSU)
  • Elman Service -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Marjorie Shostak ( - 1996) -- (MSU)
  • Marjorie Shostak -- Wikipedia
    
    

• Grafton Elliot Smith (1871 - 1937) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Baldwin Spencer (1860 - 1929) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Herbert Spinden (1879 - 1967) -- (MSU)
  
  
• George and Louise Spindler
  
  
• Louise Schaubel Spindler (1917 - 1997) -- (MSU)
  
  
• John Stephens (1805 - 1852) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Julian Steward (1902 - 1972) -- (MSU)
  • Julian Steward -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Matthew Williams Stirling (1896 - 1975) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Stuart Struever (1931 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Morris Swadesh (1909 - 1967) -- (MSU)

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• Sol Tax (1907-1995) -- (MSU)
  • Sol Tax -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Phillip V. Tobias (1925 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877 - 1954) -- (MSU)
• Alfred Marston Tozzer -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Erik Trinkaus -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Sir Edward Burnett Tylor -- (MSU)

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• Bishop James Ussher (1581-1656)
  • Bishop Ussher, Time Traveler -- Washington Apple Pi
  • James Ussher (1580-1658) -- (MSU)

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• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) -- Ben Waggoner
  
  
• Erich Von Daniken (1935 - present) -- (MSU)

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• Alan Walker (1938 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
  
  
• Anthony Wallace (1923 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• William Lloyd Warner (1898 - 1970) -- (MSU)
  • W. Lloyd Warner -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Sherwood Washburn (1911 - ) -- (MSU)
  
  
• James Watson (1928 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Oswald Werner -- (MSU)
  
  
• Leslie White (1900 - 1975) -- (MSU)
  • Leslie White -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Timothy White (1950 - ) -- (MSU)
  • Tim White (anthropologist) -- Wikipedia
    
    

• John W. M. Whiting (1908 - 1999) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Benjamin Lee Whorf -- (MSU)
  
  
• Gordon Willey (1913 - present) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Clark David Wissler (1870 - 1947) -- (MSU)
  • Clark Wissler -- Wikipedia
    
    
• Karl August Wittfogel (1896 - 1988) -- (MSU)
  
  
• Eric Wolf (1923 - 1999) -- (MSU)
• Eric Wolf -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Milford H. Wolpoff -- (MSU)
  • Milford H. Wolpoff -- Wikipedia

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