Benny Peiser

Benny Peiser

male
Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, Academic of Liverpool John Moores University, CCNet, environmental change, Spaceguard…Socialanthropologist, Anthropologist
Benny Peiser is a social anthropologist with particular research interest in human and cultural evolution. His research focuses on the effects of...
Kate Fox

Kate Fox

female
Socialanthropologist, cultural anthropology, Social Issues Research Centre, Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes, University, Institute for Cultural Research
Kate Fox is a social anthropologist and director of the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC). She is also a published author, with several titles...
Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner

male, deceased (1995)
free market, rationalism, Anthropologist of religion, David Glass, czech, religion…Socialanthropologist, social anthropology, Anthropologist
Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals" and a "one-man crusade f...
James George Frazer

James George Frazer

male, deceased (1941)
Anthropologist of religion, comparative religion, Theologian, writer, Anthropologist, Scottish…Socialanthropologist
Sir James George Frazer (January 1, 1854, Glasgow, Scotland - May 7, 1941), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of...

Edmund Leach

male, deceased (1989)
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, Anthropologist of religion, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge, British Academy, King's College, Cambridge, Socialanthropologist…social anthropology, Anthropologist
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist. He was provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the...
Max Gluckman

Max Gluckman

male, deceased (1975)
manchester school, Exeter College, Oxford, Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford, Northern Rhodesia, social anthropology, Jewish…Anthropologist, Socialanthropologist
Max Gluckman (26 January 1911 - 1975) was a South African-born British social anthropologist. He grew up in South Africa, working later under the...
Jack Goody

Jack Goody

male, 91 years old
cambridge university, The myth of the Bagre, Death, property and the ancestors, The domestication of the savage mind, US National Academy of Sciences, Jack) Goody…Socialanthropologist, Anthropologist, social anthropology
Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected...
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

male, deceased (1955)
Anthropologist, British, cape town, tonga, functionalism, levi-strauss…Socialanthropologist, social anthropology, The Social Organization of Australian Tribes
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was a British social anthropologist who developed the theory of Structural Functionalism, a framework that...

Audrey Richards

female, deceased (1984)
London School of Economics, Anthropologist, British, transvaal, bemba, Ethnographer…Socialanthropologist
Audrey Isabel Richards (8 July 1899, London, England-29 June 1984, near Midhurst, West Sussex, England), was a pioneering British woman social...
Douglas R. White

Douglas R. White

male, 67 years old
Complex Systems Scientist, manchester school, University of Pittsburgh, Doctor of Philosophy, Santa Fe Institute, University of California, Irvine…social anthropology, Social networks, Socialanthropologist, Anthropologist, social network
Douglas R. White (1942) is an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University...