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João Guilherme Biehl is a Brazilian anthropologist and theologian currently based at Princeton University. He specializes in medical anthropology and is the winner of the Rudolph Virchow Award given by the Society for Medical Anthropology. He was al
Kenneth L. “Kenny” Feder (born August 1, 1952) is a professor of archaeology at Central Connecticut State University and the author of several books on archaeology and criticism of pseudoarchaeology such as Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and P
Ruth Vilaça Correia Leite Cardoso (September 19, 1930 – June 24, 2008) was a Brazilian anthropologist and a former member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She was the wife of 34t
Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941) was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She h
Jane Fearer received her BA from Harvard/Radcliffe, and earned graduate degrees from Oxford University in Social Anthropology, and the Not-for-Profit Management program at Columbia Business School. She has been the Executive Director of Anthology Fil
Jeff Halper (Hebrew: ג’ף הלפר; born 1946) is an American-born anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is co-founder and Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAH
Baruch Arensburg (born 1934 in Santiago, Chile), professor of Anatomy, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University (emeritus), is a physical anthropologist whose main field of study has been prehistoric and historic populations of the Levant.
Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) was the first professional Native American ethnologist; he worked with the Smithsonian Institution, specializing first in his own Omaha culture, followed by that of the Osage. Working closely as a translator and resea
Cora Alice Du Bois, (October 26, 1903 – April 7, 1991) was an American cultural anthropologist and a key figure in culture and personality studies and in psychological anthropology more generally.
Claude Owen Lovejoy (born February 11, 1943) is a functional anatomist at Kent State University, Ohio, and Director of the Matthew Ferrini Institute for Human Evolutionary Research. He is best known for his work on Australopithecine locomotion and t
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905 – November 26, 1999), previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and develop
Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, author and politician. His ideas of Latin American identity have influenced several later scholars of Latin American studies. As Minister of Education of Brazil he