Victor Turner

Victor Turner

male, deceased (1983)
Anthropologist of religion, University College London, Central Africa, ritual, World War II, Manchester University…University College, Anthropologist, rites of passage, UniversityofChicago
Victor Witter Turner was a Scottish anthropologist. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Turner initially studied poetry and classics at the University...
Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade

male, deceased (1986)
sacred and profane, Shamanism, La Nuit Bengali, University of Chicago Divinity School, fascism, Iron Guard…University of Bucharest faculty, University of Calcutta alumni, University of Bucharest alumni, The Secret of Dr. Honigberger, University of Chicago faculty
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
Marshall Sahlins

Marshall Sahlins

male, 79 years old
homo economicus, tax resister, Charles F. Grey, Evolution and Culture, Marshall David Sahlins, economically rational man…University of Chicago faculty, Anthropologist, University of Michigan, UniversityofChicago, Columbia University
Marshall David Sahlins (born December 27, 1930) is a prominent American anthropologist. He received both a Bachelors and Masters degree at the...
Paul Rabinow

Paul Rabinow

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
UniversityofChicago, Anthropologist, Science studies, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology…Board of Advisors, University of California at Berkeley, university of california berkeley
Paul Rabinow is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkely since 1978.
Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield

male, deceased (1958)
UniversityofChicago, PhD, Anthropologist, linguistics, law school, American…Doctor of Philosophy
Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist. (He is not to be confused with the virologist of the same name.) Redfield...
Sol Tax

Sol Tax

male, deceased (1995)
UniversityofChicago, Anthropologist, American, social anthropology, Sauk
Sol Tax (30 October, 1907 - 4 January, 1995) was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his studies of the Sauk Indians, for...

Gilbert Herdt

male, 60 years old
Recruitment Strategy, ph.d, UniversityofChicago, Practices, Psychological anthropologist, Scientific papers…Journal of Culture, Sexuality, and Health, Journal of Men and Masculinities, Worlds of Desire, Cultural Anthropologist, University of Washington
Gilbert Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His...
Richard Shweder

Richard Shweder

male
Harvard University, Cultural Anthropologist, cultural studies, social anthropology, Psychological anthropologist, Bhubaneswar…University of Pittsburgh, UniversityofChicago, Anthropologist, University of Chicago faculty, The University of Chicago
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the...
Sherry Ortner

Sherry Ortner

female, 63 years old
Bryn Mawr College, nepal, Cultural Anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley, Sherpas, MacArthur Fellows Program…Anthropologist of religion, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, UniversityofChicago, University of Michigan
Sherry Beth Ortner (b. 19 September 1941) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since...
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