Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

female, deceased (1978) (Lewiston, Idaho, United States)
Episcopalian, lewis-clark state college, Philadelphia writer, American women writer, anthropology, Youth empowerment individuals…cultural anthropology, Visual anthropology
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia - November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist.
Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda

male, deceased (1998)
Shamanism, nagual, Don Juan Matus, peyote, New Age author, New Age…anthropology
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author. He wrote a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican...
Paul Rabinow

Paul Rabinow

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
University of Chicago, Anthropologist, Science studies, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology…anthropology
Paul Rabinow is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkely since 1978.
Scott Atran

Scott Atran

male, 57 years old
Columbia University, evolutionary psychology, religion, nature, Cognitive science, Hebrew University…Anthropology educator, anthropology
Scott Atran is an American anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1952 and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University....
Orin Starn

Orin Starn

male
accuser, Indigenous Experience Today, helpful, Crystal Gail Mangum, Latin Americanist, Non-fiction writer…anthropology, cultural anthropology
Orin Starn is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Starn is the author of "Ishi's Brain: In Search of...

Jay Ruby

male, 74 years old (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
anthropology, professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Visual anthropology, Temple University, Anthropologist
Jay Ruby (1935-) is an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his recent retirement. He...
Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood

female (Berkeley, California, United States)
professor, anthropology, university of california berkeley, human agency, habitus, American…Associate Professor of Anthropology
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist at UC Berkeley and the author of "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject" (2005). In...
H. James Birx

H. James Birx

male, 68 years old (Buffalo, New York, United States)
anthropology, Master's Degree, Anthropologist, Harvard University, philosophy, American…World Lecture Series in Anthropology, Encyclopedia of Anthropology
H. James Birx (born June 1, 1941) is an American anthropologist. Birx took his M.A. in anthropology and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State...
Marcel Danesi

Marcel Danesi

male, 63 years old (Mississauga, Ontario , Canada)
Rutgers University, University of Rome, Catholic University of Milan, Linguistic Anthropology, semiotics, Communication…anthropology
Marcel Danesi has a PhD in Italian linguistics, and taught Italian for twenty-five years at the University of Toronto, where he is now the director...

Roy D'Andrade

male (La Jolla, California, United States)
schema, wikt personality, psychological anthropology, University of California, San Diego, social anthropology, Psychological anthropologist…anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Roy Goodwin D'Andrade is one of the founders of the subdiscipline of cognitive anthropology. Born in New Jersey, D'Andrade matriculated at Rutgers...