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Hermann Mückler
1964 - Present (60 years)
Hermann N. Mückler is an Austrian anthropologist and political scientist, specialized on the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Oceania , especially Fiji, Melanesia, and Polynesia. Biography Born in Vienna of Austrian-Moravian ancestry, Hermann Mückler studied anthropology and political science at the University of Vienna. He received a PhD in 1997 with a thesis on „Taukei und Vulagi; Reasons for political instability in Fiji. Culture change, ethnic conflicts and the importance of the chiefly system; the Fijian perspective“ . His habilitation took place in 2001 with a thesis „Finis Tui Viti...
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Albert Piette
1960 - Present (64 years)
Albert Piette is a French anthropologist and a professor at the Department of Anthropology at Paris Nanterre University. His research has focused on questions of observation, especially in the religious world. He describes and analyses details and ordinary forms in everyday life - what he named the minor mode of reality.
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Amihai Mazar
1942 - Present (82 years)
Amihai "Ami" Mazar is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel , he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.
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Omer Stewart
1908 - 1991 (83 years)
Omer Call Stewart was an American cultural anthropologist and author who worked at the University of Colorado. He was a student of Alfred L. Kroeber. He defended Native American land claims and advocated for tribes legal use of peyote.
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Carol J. Greenhouse
1950 - Present (74 years)
Carol J. Greenhouse is an American anthropologist. She is currently professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she previously served as Arthur W. Marks Professor of Anthropology and Chair. She is also the former president of the American Ethnological Society, former editor of its peer-review journal, American Ethnologist, and former president of the Law and Society Association.
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Thomas A. Abercrombie
1951 - 2019 (68 years)
Thomas Alan Abercrombie was a writer and associate professor of anthropology at New York University. He is the author of Pathways of Memory and Power, a book which explores the ethnography and history of the Andeans.
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Vincent Sarich
1934 - 2012 (78 years)
Vincent Matthew Sarich was an American anthropologist and biochemist. He was Professor Emeritus in anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Sarich and his PhD advisor, Allan Wilson, used molecular data to estimate that humans and chimpanzees have a common ancestor just four to five million years ago. Their paper on their finding was published in 1967. At the time, scientists considered the common ancestor to live ten to 30 million years ago, and their revised estimate has become well accepted. Sarich generated controversy with his support for analyzing human behavior and population...
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David Rindos
1947 - 1996 (49 years)
David Rindos was an archaeologist. He graduated with a PhD from Cornell University and subsequently held a number of short-term positions in the US. His book on the origins of agriculture, published in 1984, was hailed as a major innovative contribution to the field. In 1989, he was recruited to the University of Western Australia, where he worked until his dismissal and involvement in the Rindos affair.
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Henry F. Dobyns
1925 - 2009 (84 years)
Henry Farmer Dobyns, Jr. was an anthropologist, author and researcher specializing in the ethnohistory and demography of native peoples in the American hemisphere. He is most well known for his groundbreaking demographic research on the size of indigenous American populations before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.
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Chris Knight
1942 - Present (82 years)
Chris Knight is a British anthropologist. Life Professional Following an MPhil in Russian Literature from the University of Sussex in 1975, Knight gained his PhD in 1987 at the University of London for a thesis on Claude Lévi-Strauss's four-volume Mythologiques. He became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of East London in 1989 and a professor at the same institution in 2000. A founding member of the "Radical Anthropology Group" , Knight is currently a senior research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London.
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Robert Foley
1953 - Present (71 years)
Robert Andrew Foley, FBA is a British anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in human evolution. From 1977 to 1985, he was a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Durham. He has been a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1987, and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge since 2003.
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Roger Pearson
1927 - Present (97 years)
Roger Pearson is a British anthropologist, eugenicist, white supremacist, political organiser for the extreme right, and publisher of political and academic journals. Pearson was a part of the faculty of the Queens University of Charlotte, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Montana Tech, before his retirement. It has been noted that Pearson was surprisingly successful in combining a career in academia with political activities on the far right.
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Epeli Hauʻofa
1939 - 2009 (70 years)
Epeli Hauʻofa was a Tongan and Fijian writer and anthropologist born of Tongan missionary parents in the Territory of Papua. He lived in Fiji and taught at the University of the South Pacific . He was the founder of the Oceania Centre for Arts at the USP.
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Charles Thurstan Shaw
1914 - 2013 (99 years)
Chief Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa. He specialized in the ancient cultures of present-day Ghana and Nigeria. He helped establish academic institutions, including the Ghana National Museum and the archaeology department at the University of Ghana. He began working with the University of Ibadan in 1960, where he later founded and developed its archaeology department. He led this for more than 10 years before his retirement in 1974.
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Melissa Leach
1965 - Present (59 years)
Melissa Leach, is a British geographer and social anthropologist. She studies sustainability and development concerns in policy-making and has a focus on the politics of science and technology of Africa. As of 2017 she was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies located on the University of Sussex campus.
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Douglas Sharon
1941 - Present (83 years)
Douglas Sharon is a Canadian cultural anthropologist , ethnobotanist and shamanism scholar who has directed both the University of California/Berkeley's Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the San Diego Museum of Man. He has conducted more than 40 years of field research and published on pre-Columbian and modern shamanic practices in Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Bolivia.
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Harold C. Conklin
1926 - 2016 (90 years)
Harold Colyer Conklin was an American anthropologist who conducted extensive ethnoecological and linguistic field research in Southeast Asia and was a pioneer of ethnoscience, documenting indigenous ways of understanding and knowing the world.
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Sven Haakanson
1967 - Present (57 years)
Sven Haakanson, Jr. is an American anthropologist who specializes in documenting and preserving the language and culture of the Alutiiq. He served, from 2000-2013, as Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. He is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Curator of North American Anthropology at the Burke Museum. In 2007 he was named as a MacArthur Fellow for being a leader in the effort to rekindle Alutiiq language, customs and culture.
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Gabriel Barkay
1944 - Present (80 years)
Gabriel Barkay is an Israeli archaeologist. Biography Gabriel Barkay was born in the Budapest Ghetto, Hungary, he immigrated to Israel in 1950. He studied archaeology, comparative religion and geography at Tel Aviv University, graduated summa cum laude, and received his PhD in archaeology from the same university in 1985. His dissertation was about LMLK seal impressions on jar handles. He participated in the Lachish excavations with David Ussishkin. His academic areas of interest include the archaeology of Jerusalem, biblical archaeology, burials and burial customs, art, epigraphy, and glypt...
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Roger Keesing
1935 - 1993 (58 years)
Roger Martin Keesing was an American linguist and anthropologist, most notable for his fieldwork on the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands, and his writings on a wide range of topics including kinship, religion, politics, history, cognitive anthropology and language. Keesing was a major contributor to anthropology.
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Brian Morris
1936 - Present (88 years)
Brian Morris is emeritus professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He is a specialist on folk taxonomy, ethnobotany and ethnozoology, and on religion and symbolism. He has carried out fieldwork among South Asian hunter-gatherers and in Malawi. Groups that he has studied include the Ojibwa.
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Jane I. Guyer
1943 - Present (81 years)
Jane I. Guyer is the George Armstrong Kelly Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Biography Before coming to Hopkins, Guyer taught at Northwestern University, Harvard University, and Boston University. She has published extensively on economic development in West Africa, on the productive economy, the division of labor, and the management of money. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and serves on several international and national committees, including the International Advisory Group to the World Bank and the governments of Chad and...
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David P. McAllester
1916 - 2006 (90 years)
David Park McAllester was an American ethnomusicologist and Professor of Anthropology and Music at Wesleyan University, where he taught from 1947–1986. He contributed to the development of the field of ethnomusicology through his studies of Navajo and Comanche musics, and he helped to establish the ethnomusicology department and the World Music Program at Wesleyan. His recordings of Navajo and Comanche music led to the establishment of the World Music Archives at the University.
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Sheila Kitzinger
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Sheila Helena Elizabeth Kitzinger MBE was a British natural childbirth activist and author on childbirth and pregnancy. She wrote more than 20 books and had a worldwide reputation as a passionate and committed advocate for change.
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Melvyn Goldstein
1938 - Present (86 years)
Melvyn C. Goldstein is an American social anthropologist and Tibet scholar. He is a professor of anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on Tibetan society, history and contemporary politics, population studies, polyandry, studies in cultural and development ecology, economic change and cross-cultural gerontology.
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Sandra Morgen
1950 - 2016 (66 years)
Sandra Lynn Morgen was an American feminist anthropologist. At the end of her career, she was a professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, and previously served as vice provost for graduate studies and associate dean of the Graduate School, and director of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society.
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Vintilă Mihăilescu
1951 - 2020 (69 years)
Vintilă Mihăilescu was a leading Romanian cultural anthropologist, and a professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration. He was the brother of mathematician Preda Mihăilescu.
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Henry Jenkins
1958 - Present (66 years)
Henry Guy Jenkins III is an American media scholar and Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He also has a joint faculty appointment with the USC Rossier School of Education. Previously, Jenkins was the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities as well as co-founder and co-director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He has also served on the technical advisory board at ZeniMax Media, parent company of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks.
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Surajit Chandra Sinha
1926 - 2002 (76 years)
Surajit Chandra Sinha was an Indian anthropologist. Background Born in Durgapur Upazila in the Bengal Presidency , he was the eldest son of Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha of Susang, who was a student of Presidency College, Calcutta and a well-known landscape painter. His mother was a daughter of Jogendranath Moitra, the zamindar of Sithlai in Pabna District. Her family members traced their origins to the reign of Emperor Jahangir. Sinha's youngest sister is Purba Dam, the eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet.
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Carol R. Ember
1948 - Present (76 years)
Carol R. Ember is an American cultural anthropologist, cross-cultural researcher and a writer of books on anthropology. She is now the President of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.
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Bill Epstein
1924 - 1999 (75 years)
Arnold Leonard Epstein, known as Bill Epstein , was a British social anthropologist. A member of the "Manchester School", he was known for his research on ethnicity and identity, particularly his book Ethos and Identity , and for his ethnographic work in Central Africa and New Britain. He was a professor at the Australian National University and Sussex University , as well as the vice president of the Royal Anthropological Institute . He was married to T. Scarlett Epstein and had two daughters.
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Kirsten Hastrup
1948 - Present (76 years)
Kirsten Blinkenberg Hastrup is a Danish anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She has taken a special interest in the conjunction between the history and culture of both Iceland and Greenland, publishing widely on both, while also examining the relationship between the theatre and anthropology. Hastrup was president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters from 2008 to 2016.
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Alison Richard
1948 - Present (76 years)
Dame Alison Fettes Richard, is an English anthropologist, conservationist and university administrator. She was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the third Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time, and the second woman. Before arriving at Cambridge, she served as the provost of Yale University from 1994 to 2002.
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Jeffrey Cole
1958 - Present (66 years)
Jeffrey E. Cole is an American anthropologist. He is professor of Anthropology, chairman of the Department of Anthropology and dean at Connecticut College, and served as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological Association from 2012 to 2014. Cole is an expert on race and ethnicity in Europe, a subject on which he has written and edited numerous books and articles.
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John Adair
1913 - 1997 (84 years)
John Adair , was an American anthropologist best known for work in visual anthropology but also very much involved and interested in applied anthropology. After serving in World War II, he moved to the University of New Mexico to finish his graduate studies, becoming the university's first doctoral candidate in anthropology in 1948. Adair than moved to Zuni with his pregnant wife Casey and their son. His sole purpose of moving to Zuni was to gather information that he could use in his dissertation, "The Veterans of World War II at Zuni Pueblo", which was never published.
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John Langston Gwaltney
1928 - 1998 (70 years)
John Langston Gwaltney was an African-American writer and anthropologist focused on African-American culture, best known for his book Drylongso: A Self Portrait of Black America. Early life Gwaltney lost his eyesight soon after birth and was the first blind student to attend his local high school in Newark, NJ.
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Leith Mullings
1945 - 2020 (75 years)
Leith Patricia Mullings was a Jamaican-born author, anthropologist and professor. She was president of the American Anthropological Association from 2011–2013, and was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Mullings was involved in organizing for progressive social justice, racial equality and economic justice as one of the founding members of the Black Radical Congress and in her role as President of the AAA. Under her leadership, the American Anthropological Association took up the issue of academic labor rights.
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Marta Mirazón Lahr
1965 - Present (59 years)
Dr. Marta Mirazón Lahr is a palaeoanthropologist and Director of the Duckworth Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Academic career Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mirazon Lahr graduated in Biology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She later earned a Masters and PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, following which she was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Clare College. She was then an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology of University of São Paulo , before returning to Cambridge in 1999 as a lecturer in Biological Anthropology and Fellow of Clare College.
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Conrad M. Arensberg
1910 - 1997 (87 years)
Conrad Maynadier Arensberg was an American anthropologist and scholar. He was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1931. He was exempted from his final exams by the College Dean who viewed them as "being completely unnecessary in Conrad's case" . In 1937, his doctorate dissertation titled The Irish Countryman became a college textbook.
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Richard Bradley
1946 - Present (78 years)
Richard John Bradley, is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the study of European prehistory, and in particular Prehistoric Britain. From 1987 to 2013, he was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading; he is now emeritus professor. He is also the author of a number of books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory.
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Hermann Parzinger
1959 - Present (65 years)
Hermann Parzinger is a German historian who is a specialist in the culture of the Scythians. He has been president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1 March 2008 and the Executive President of Europa Nostra since 2018.
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Dennis Stanford
1943 - 2019 (76 years)
Dennis J. Stanford was an archaeologist and Director of the Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Along with Professor Bruce Bradley, Stanford was known for investigating the Solutrean hypothesis, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric northern Spain and Portugal may have influenced the development of later Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas by way of an earlier trans-atlantic maritime travel along a sea ice shelf to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum. In 2012, th...
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Andrej Grubačić
1976 - Present (48 years)
Andrej Grubačić is a Yugoslav world historian, world-systems theorist, and activist based in the United States. Early life and education Grubačić was born in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is the grandson of Ratomir Dugonjić, former president of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Vice president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Grubačić graduated from University of Belgrade and completed master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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John R. Lukacs
1947 - Present (77 years)
John R. Lukacs is an American anthropologist. He received a PhD in 1977 from Cornell University, where he was a student of Kenneth A.R. Kennedy. Lukacs is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
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Richard McElreath
1973 - Present (51 years)
Richard McElreath is an American professor of anthropology and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He's an author of the Statistical Rethinking applied Bayesian statistics textbook, among the first to largely rely on the Stan statistical environment, and the accompanying rethinking R language package.
Go to ProfileMichael Waters is an American academic working as a professor of anthropology and geography at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Endowed Chair in First American Studies. He specializes in geoarchaeology, and has applied this method to the investigation of Clovis and later Paleo-Indian, and possible pre-Clovis occupation sites.
Go to ProfileFatimah Linda Collier Jackson is an American biologist and anthropologist. She is a professor of biology at Howard University and Director of its Cobb Research Laboratory. Early life, family and education Jackson was raised in Denver, Colorado. Her mother was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fatimah's father was a mechanic who died when she was six years old. One of her great-grandmothers was descended from Choctaw people and was an herbalist. She attended elementary school, junior high school, and high school which were predominantly African-American.
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Andre Gingrich
1952 - Present (72 years)
Andre Gingrich is an Austrian ethnologist and anthropologist, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and retired professor at the University of Vienna.
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Maciej Henneberg
1949 - Present (75 years)
Maciej Henneberg is a Polish-Australian Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has held this position since 1996 and specialises in human evolution, forensic science, human anatomy, as well as physical anthropology. He has held various academic positions at the University of Oxford, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Zurich.
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