Paul Dourish

Paul Dourish

male, 43 years old (Long Beach, California, United States)
social science, Embodiment, social computing, Tangible computing, Interaction Design, B.Sc.…ethnographic
Paul Dourish is a computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection of computer science and social science. He is a professor at the...
Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth

male, 81 years old
Anthropologist of religion, formalistic, Swat Valley, Economic anthropology, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, ethnography…ethnographic
Fredrik Barth (born 1928) is a Norwegian social anthropologist who has published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view. He is...
Napoleon Chagnon

Napoleon Chagnon

male, 71 years old
University of Michigan, human behavioral ecology, Native American in South America, Napoleon A. Chagnon, Yanomamö, yanomami…ethnographic
Napoleon A. Chagnon is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Port Austin,...
Marcel Griaule

Marcel Griaule

male, deceased (1956)
University of Paris - Sorbonne, aviator, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Lycee Louis-Le-Grand, French Airforce, Djibouti…ethnographic
Marcel Griaule was a French anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies...
Robert Lowie

Robert Lowie

male, deceased (1957)
Columbia University, mandan, College of the City of New York, Great Plains, University of California, Berkeley, American Southwest…ethnographic
Robert Henry Lowie (June 12, 1883 - September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. An expert on North American Indians, he was...

James Spradley

male
Academic, American, ethnographic, macalester college, ethnography, participant observation
James P. Spradley was a professor of Anthropology at Macalester College from 1969 and is well known for his additions to the literature on...
Robert Wuthnow

Robert Wuthnow

male
sociologist of religion, Princeton University, Andlinger Professor of Sociology, sociology of religion, cultural sociology, University of California, Berkeley…ethnographic
Robert Wuthnow is a sociologist at the Princeton University, where he is the Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for the Study...

David Maybury-Lewis

male
Latin Americanist, D.Phil, hyderabad, ethnography, Hyderabad, Pakistan, post-modernist…ethnographic
David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (born 1929) is an anthropologist, ethnologist of lowland South America, activist for indigenous peoples' human...
Robert Sonkin

Robert Sonkin

male, deceased (1980)
Columbia University, Alexander Bryan Johnson Philosophical Banker, Archive of American Folk Song, Army Signal Corps, Farm Security Administration, Orthodox Jewish…ethnographic
Robert Sonkin (1911-1980) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, in 1911. Sonkin, who held degrees from both City College...
Hortense Powdermaker

Hortense Powdermaker

female, deceased (1970)
New Ireland, papua new guinea, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Yale Institute of Human Relations, Bronislaw Malinowski, ethnography…ethnographic
Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970) was an anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of...