Claude Lévi-Strauss

male, 101 years old
Claude Lévi-Strauss (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and c...
Leo Frobenius

Leo Frobenius

male, deceased (1938)
Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 - 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. He was born in...
Henri Breuil

Henri Breuil

male, deceased (1961)
Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (February 28, 1877, Mortain, Manche, Normandy–August 14, 1961, L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, France), often referred to as...
Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton

male, deceased (1890)
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist,...
Frank Hamilton Cushing

Frank Hamilton Cushing

male, deceased (1900)
Frank Hamilton Cushing July 22, 1857- April 10, 1900 was born in Northeastern Pennsylvania, later moving with his family to western New York. As a...
Raymond Firth

Raymond Firth

male, deceased (2002)
Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, (25 March, 1901 - 22 February, 2002) was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic...
Lewis H. Morgan

Lewis H. Morgan

male, deceased (1881)
Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21, 1818 - December 17, 1881) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist and writer. However, his professional life...
Diamond Jenness

Diamond Jenness

male, deceased (1969) (Canada)
Diamond Jenness CC (February 10 1886, Wellington, New Zealand - November 29 1969) was a Canadian anthropologist. He is a graduate of both Victoria...
Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson

male, deceased (1892)
Sir Daniel Wilson (5 January, 1816 - 6 August, 1892) was a British-born Canadian archaeologist, ethnologist and author. Wilson was born and...
Wilhelm Schmidt

Wilhelm Schmidt

male, deceased (1954)
Wilhelm Schmidt was an Austrian linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. Wilhelm Schmidt was born in Hörde, Germany in 1868. He entered the S...