E. E. Evans-Pritchard

E. E. Evans-Pritchard

male, deceased (1973)
Sir Edward Evan (E. E.) Evans-Pritchard, Knights Bachelor, Anthropologist of religion, Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford, Academic of the London School of Economics, From Sussex…socialanthropology
Sir Edward Evan (E. E.) Evans-Pritchard was a British anthropologist instrumental in the development of social anthropology in that country. He was...
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

male, 47 years old
norwegian, Anthropologist, trinidad, university of oslo, mauritius, Venstre…socialanthropology
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (born 1962) is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has done field work in Trinidad and Mauritius....
Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas

female, deceased (2007)
Roman Catholic, Anthropologist of religion, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford, FBA, Dame Mary Douglas…socialanthropology
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA, (March 25 1921 - 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. Her...

Edmund Leach

male, deceased (1989)
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, Anthropologist of religion, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge, British Academy, King's College, Cambridge, Social anthropologist…socialanthropology
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...
Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner

male, deceased (1995)
free market, rationalism, Anthropologist of religion, David Glass, czech, religion…Social anthropologist, socialanthropology
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...
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…Social anthropologist, socialanthropology
Sir John (Jack) Goody (born 1919) is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected...
Max Gluckman

Max Gluckman

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

Adam Kuper

male, 68 years old
Leiden University faculty, Science writer, Anthropology writer, Anthropology educator, Kampala, Alumni of the University of Cambridge…socialanthropology
Adam Kuper (born 1941) is a British anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the...
Unni Wikan

Unni Wikan

female, 65 years old
Islam in Norway, The Anooshe case, Anooshe Sediq Ghulam, " might see it as a ", a far more complex social reality, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation…socialanthropology
Unni Wikan in Harstad, Norway is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the second wife of the well-known Norwegian...
Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield

male, deceased (1958)
University of Chicago, PhD, Anthropologist, linguistics, law school, American…Physical anthropology, socialanthropology
Robert Redfield was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist. (He is not to be confused with the virologist of the same name.) Redfield...