Michel Leiris

Michel Leiris

male, deceased (1990)
writer, French, surrealist, Ethnographer, From Paris, Essonne
Julien Michel Leiris (April 20 1901 in Paris - September 30 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.
Marius Barbeau

Marius Barbeau

male, deceased (1969)
Coast of British Columbia, French Quebecer, Gitxsan, Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Ethnographer
Charles Marius Barbeau, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is...
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl

male, deceased (2002)
islomaniac, brain tumor, norwegian, historian, Vipera berus, Colla Micheri…Ethnographer
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific...
Arnold van Gennep

Arnold van Gennep

male, deceased (1957)
Le Manuel de folklore francais contemporain, Anthropologist of religion, wiktionary Founder, folklorist, Ludwigsburg, rites of passage…Ethnographer
Arnold van Gennep (23 April, 1873 - 1957) was a noted French ethnographer and folklorist. He was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany. At the age of six...
Charles Armstrong

Charles Armstrong

male, 38 years old
Ethnographer, technologist, Information Systems, St John's College, Cambridge, Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, Isles of Scilly
Charles Scott Armstrong (born September 14 1971 in Portsmouth, UK) is an ethnographer and technologist. He developed the field of sociomimetics,...
Clark Wissler

Clark Wissler

male, deceased (1947)
Ethnographer, Indiana University alumni, Curator, Yale University, Anthropologist, from Indiana
Clark Wissler (September 18, 1870 - August 25, 1947) was an American anthropologist. He was born near Hagerstown, Indiana and graduated from...
Adolf Bastian

Adolf Bastian

male, deceased (1905)
Museum of Folkart, Ethnographer, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, ethnography, German Confederation
Adolf Bastian was a 19th century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of...
Frances Densmore

Frances Densmore

female, deceased (1957)
Red Wing, Sioux, white, American, Ethnographer, Ethnomusicologist
Frances Densmore (1867-1957) was an important American ethnographer and ethnomusicologist. She was born in Red Wing, Minnesota on May 21, 1867. As...
Stewart Culin

Stewart Culin

male, deceased (1929)
Ethnographer, American, game, Ethnologist, marionette, World's Columbian Exposition
Stewart Culin (July 13, 1858 - 1929) was an ethnographer and author interested in games, art and dress. He believed that similarity in gaming...

Jan Vansina

male, 80 years old
University of Wisconsin, historian, Anthropologist, Ethnographer, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, mandinka
Jan Vansina (b. Antwerp, Belgium, September 14, 1929) is a historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He was first trained as a...