title: List of anthropologists
text: 
  
  A
  
  John Adair
  B. R. Ambedkar
  Giulio Angioni
  Jon Altman
  Arjun Appadurai
  Talal Asad
  Timothy Asch
  Scott Atran
  Marc Augé
  
  B
  
  Nigel Barley
  Fredrik Barth
  Vasily Bartold
  Keith H. Basso
  Daisy Bates
  Gregory Bateson
  Mary Catherine Bateson
  Ruth Behar
  Ruth Benedict
  Dorothy A. Bennett
  Carl H. Berendt
  Lee Berger
  Brent Berlin
  Catherine Helen Webb Berndt
  Catherine L. Besteman
  Theodore C. Bestor
  Lewis Binford
  Evelyn Blackwood
  Wilhelm Bleek
  Maurice Bloch
  Anton Blok
  Franz Boas
  Tom Boellstorff
  Paul Bohannan
  Dmitri Bondarenko
  Pere Bosch-Gimpera
  Pierre Bourdieu
  Philippe Bourgois
  Paul Broca
  Christian Bromberger
  Kari Bruwelheide
  Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa)
  
  C
  
  Julio Caro Baroja
  Edmund Carpenter
  Napoleon Chagnon
  Pierre Clastres
  Mabel Cook Cole
  Malcolm Carr Collier
  Harold C. Conklin
  Carleton S. Coon
  Frank Hamilton Cushing
  
  D
  
  Regna Darnell
  Raymond Dart
  Emma Lou Davis
  Wade Davis
  Ernesto de Martino
  Ella Cara Deloria
  Raymond J. DeMallie
  Philippe Descola
  Stanley Diamond
  Mary Douglas
  Cora Du Bois
  Eugene Dubois
  Robin Dunbar
  Ann Dunham
  Katherine Dunham
   Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
  Émile Durkheim
  
  E
  
  Mary Lindsay Elmendolf
  Verrier Elwin
  Matthew Engelke
  Friedrich Engels
  Arturo Escobar
  E. E. Evans-Pritchard
  
  F
  
  James Ferguson
  Raymond Firth
  Raymond D. Fogelson
  Meyer Fortes
  Gregory Forth
  Dian Fossey
  Kate Fox
  Robin Fox
  James Frazer
  Lina Fruzzetti
  
  G
  
  Clifford Geertz
  Alfred Gell
  Ernest Gellner
  Herb Di Gioia
  Max Gluckman
  Maurice Godelier
  Jane Goodall
  Marjorie Harness Goodwin
  Igor Gorevich
  Harold A. Gould
  David Graeber
  Hilma Granqvist
  J. Patrick Gray
  Marcel Griaule
  Jacob Grimm
  Wilhelm Grimm
  
  H
  
  Abdellah Hammoudi
  Michael Harkin
  Michael Harner
  John P. Harrington
  Marvin Harris
  K. David Harrison
  Kirsten Hastrup
  Jacquetta Hawkes
  Brian Douglas Hayden
  Rose Oldfield Hayes
  Stephen C. Headley
  Thor Heyerdahl
  Arthur Maurice Hocart
  Ian Hodder
  E. Adamson Hoebel
  Earnest Hooton
  Robin W.G. Horton
  Aleš Hrdlička
  Eva Verbitsky Hunt
  Dell Hymes
  
  I
  
  Miyako Inoue
  Bill Irons
  
  J
  
  Ira Jacknis
  John M. Janzen
  Thomas Des Jean
  F. Landa Jocano
  Alfred E. Johnson
  William Jones
  Michal Josephy
  Jeffrey S. Juris
  
  K
  
  Sergei Kan
  Jomo Kenyatta
  David Kertzer
  Alice Beck Kehoe
  Anatoly Khazanov
  Dolly Kikon
  Richard G. Klein
  Chris Knight
  Eduardo Kohn
  Dorinne K. Kondo
  Andrey Korotayev
  Conrad Kottak
  Charles H. Kraft
  Grover Krantz
  Alfred L. Kroeber
  Theodora Kroeber
  Lars Krutak
  Adam Kuper
  
  L
  
  William Labov
  George Lakoff
  Harold E. Lambert
  Edmund Leach
  Eleanor Leacock
  Murray Leaf
  Louis Leakey
  Mary Leakey
  Richard Leakey
  Richard Borshay Lee
  Charles Miller Leslie
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
  Ellen Lewin
  C. Scott Littleton
  Albert Buell Lewis
  Oscar Lewis
  Phillip Harold Lewis
  Roland Littlewood
  Iris López
  Robert Lowie
  Nancy Lurie
  
  M 
  
  Alan Macfarlane
  Saba Mahmood
  Bronisław Malinowski
  George Marcus
  Jonathan M. Marks
  Karl Marx
  John Alden Mason
  Michael Atwood Mason
  Marcel Mauss
  Phillip McArthur
  Irma McClaurin
  Charles Harrison McNutt
  Margaret Mead
  Mervyn Meggitt
  Josef Mengele
  Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
  Emily Martin
  Horace Mitchell Miner
  Sidney Mintz
  Ashley Montagu
  James Mooney
  Henrietta L. Moore
  John H. Moore
  Lewis H. Morgan
  Desmond Morris
  George Murdock
  Yolanda Murphy
  
  N 
  
  Laura Nader
  Moni Nag
  Jeremy Narby
  Raoul Naroll
  Josiah Nott
  Erland Nordenskiöld
  
  O 
  
  Gananath Obeyesekere
  Kaori O'Connor
  Aihwa Ong
  Marvin Opler
  Morris Opler
  Sherry Ortner
  Keith F. Otterbein
  Evelia Edith Oyhenart
  
  P 
  
  Elsie Clews Parsons
  Bronislav Pilsudski
  Thomas J. Pluckhahn
  Hortense Powdermaker
  A.H.J. Prins
  Harald E.L. Prins
  
  Q 
  
  Buell Quain
  James Quesada
  
  R
  
  Paul Rabinow
  Wilhelm Radloff
  Laurence Ralph
  Lucinda Ramberg
  Roy Rappaport
  Hans Ras
  Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
  Margaret Read
  Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
  Kathy Reichs
  Audrey Richards
  W. H. R. Rivers
  Paul Rivet
  Joel Robbins
  Renato Rosaldo
  Gayle Rubin
  Robert A. Rubinstein
  
  S
  
  Marshall Sahlins
  Noel B. Salazar
  Roger Sandall
  Edward Sapir
  Patricia Sawin
  Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  Wilhelm Schmidt
  Tobias Schneebaum
  James C. Scott
  Thayer Scudder
  Elman Service
  Afanasy Shchapov
  Gerald F. Schroedl
  Florence Connolly Shipek
  Sydel Silverman
  Audra Simpson
  Cathy Small
  Christen A. Smith
  Jacques Soustelle
  Melford Spiro
  James Spradley
  Julian Steward
  Herbert Spencer
  Marilyn Strathern
  William Sturtevant
  Niara Sudarkasa
  
  T
  
  Michael Taussig
  Sharika Thiranagama
  Edward Burnett Tylor
  Colin Turnbull
  Victor Turner
  Bruce Trigger
  
  V
  
  Karl Verner
  L. P. Vidyarthi
  Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
  Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
  
  W
  
  Anthony F. C. Wallace
  Lee Henderson Watkins
  Camilla Wedgwood
  Hank Wesselman
  Kath Weston
  Douglas R. White
  Isobel Mary White 
  Leslie White
  Tim White
  Benjamin Whorf
  Unni Wikan
  Clark Wissler
  Eric Wolf
  Alvin Wolfe
  Sol Worth
  
  Y
  
  Nur Yalman
  Kim Yeshi
  
  Z
  
  Jarrett Zigon
  R. Tom Zuidema
  
  Fictional anthropologists
  
  Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
  Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel)  in the television series Bones
  Temperance Brennan in the novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs
  Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
  Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the television series Star Trek: Discovery
  Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
  Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) in the television series Lost
  
  See also
   List of female anthropologists
   List of Black Anthropologists
   List of Chinese sociologists and anthropologists
  
  References
  
  Anthropologists