Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth

male, 81 years old
Fredrik Barth (born 1928) is a Norwegian social anthropologist who has published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view. He is...

Loïc Wacquant

male
Loïc Wacquant is a French sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, poverty, and ethnography. Wacquant is currently a Professor of Sociology a...
Derek Freeman

Derek Freeman

male, deceased (2001)
John Derek Freeman (b. August 15, 1916, Wellington, New Zealand; d. July 6, 2001, Canberra, Australia) was a New Zealand anthropologist best known...
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...
Pierre Clastres

Pierre Clastres

male, deceased (1977)
Pierre Clastres, (1934-1977), was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. He is best known for his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and...
James Mooney

James Mooney

male, deceased (1921)
James Mooney (1861-1921) was a notable anthropologist who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He was born at Richmond, Indiana. In 1885 he...

James Spradley

male
James P. Spradley was a professor of Anthropology at Macalester College from 1969 and is well known for his additions to the literature on...
Victoria Bellotti

Victoria Bellotti

female
Victoria Bellotti is a principal scientist and manager of the Socio-Technical and Interaction Research (STIR) area at the Palo Alto Research Center...
Gananath Obeyesekere

Gananath Obeyesekere

male
Gananath Obeyesekere Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his PhD in...

David Maybury-Lewis

male
David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis (born 1929) is an anthropologist, ethnologist of lowland South America, activist for indigenous peoples' human...