The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Anthropology,
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Robert D. Martin
#26821
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Robert D. Martin is a British-born biological anthropologist who is currently an Emeritus Curator at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He is also an adjunct professor at University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois Chicago. His research spans the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology and human reproductive biology. Additionally, he writes a blog on human reproduction for Psychology Today.
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Chris Fuller
#29126
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Christopher John Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has studied and written extensively about the people of India, particularly with regard to subjects such as Hinduism, the caste system, and the relationship between globalisation and the middle-classes.
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George M. Foster
#34160
Overall Influence
1913 - 2006 (93 years)
George McClelland Foster Jr. was an American anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for contributions on peasant societies and as one of the founders of medical anthropology. He served as president of the American Anthropological Association . And was elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He received the 1982 Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2005. A festschrift in his honor was published in 1979.
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Stanislav Drobyshevsky
#31818
Overall Influence
1978 - Present (46 years)
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky is a Russian anthropologist and science popularizer. He is a Candidate of Sciences and works at the Anthropology department of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. He is a scientific editor of the popular science portal Antropogenez.ru. His body of work includes monographs, university textbooks, and popular science books. He is a vlogger and YouTuber. He also frequently appears in other Russian popular science channels.
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Christopher Robert Hallpike
#18796
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (86 years)
Christopher Robert Hallpike is an English-Canadian anthropologist and an emeritus professor of anthropology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He is known for his extensive study of the Konso of Ethiopia and Tauade of New Guinea.
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George J. Armelagos
#35699
Overall Influence
1936 - 2014 (78 years)
George J. Armelagos was an American anthropologist, and Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Armelagos significantly impacted the field of physical anthropology and biological anthropology. His work has provided invaluable contributions to the theoretical and methodological understanding human disease, diet and human variation within an evolutionary context. Relevant topics include epidemiology, paleopathology, paleodemography, bioarchaeology, evolutionary medicine, and the social interpretations of race, among others.
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Paul Jorion
#10523
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (78 years)
Paul Jorion is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics. Paul was born and raised in Belgium, and has been a professor at the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, Paris VIII and University of California at Irvine. He was a visiting scholar of the "Human Complex Systems" Program at UCLA from 2005 to 2009. He currently lives in France, where he runs a popular blog on financial and economic matters. In 2012, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel made him holder of the newly created "Stewardshi...
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Raymond A. Bucko
#36913
Overall Influence
Raymond A. Bucko, S. J., is an American Jesuit priest and anthropologist noted for his work among the Lakota Indians. Bucko received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1992 from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson. He specializes in cultural anthropology and published a book on the Lakota sweat lodge in 1998.
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Hebe Vessuri
#40166
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Hebe Vessuri is an Argentine–Venezuelan social anthropologist. In 2017, she was recognized with the John Desmond Bernal Prize Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Early life and education Vessuri was born in 1942 in Buenos Aires. She married young and studied at the University of Oxford. While there, she wished to study anthropology but was unable to due to age restrictions. She received permission from the director of the Anthropology Faculty, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, to study under his supervision.
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Joan Halifax
#12541
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Joan Jiko Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and previously studied with the Korean master Seung Sahn. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax.
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Fred Wendorf
#30655
Overall Influence
1924 - 2015 (91 years)
Denver Fred Wendorf was an American archaeologist known primarily for his groundbreaking research in northeast Africa. He also founded the Fort Burgwin Research Center and Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University, where he was Henderson-Morrison Professor of Prehistory. He won numerous awards throughout his career and was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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Caroline Humphrey
#23678
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Caroline Humphrey, Baroness Rees of Ludlow, is a British anthropologist and academic. Biography Humphrey's father was the biologist Conrad H. Waddington. Her mother was her father's second wife, architect Margaret Justin Blanco White ; she has a younger sister, the mathematician Dusa McDuff, and an elder half-brother, the physicist C. Jake Waddington, by her father's first marriage to Cecil Elizabeth Lascelles.
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Roy Richard Grinker
#20213
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (63 years)
Roy Richard Grinker is an American author and Professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at The George Washington University. Grinker is an authority on North and South Korean relations. As part of his PhD research, he spent two years living with the Lese farmers and the Efé pygmies in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Fulbright scholar. He has also conducted epidemiological research on autism in Korea.
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Jan Brøgger
#62863
Overall Influence
1936 - 2006 (70 years)
Jan Christian Brøgger was a Norwegian professor of social anthropology and a clinical psychologist. He was one of the most well-known Norwegian academics of his generation. He first worked together with the internationally more notable Fredrik Barth at the University of Bergen. Brøgger later travelled to Cornell University where he studied under Victor Turner. He received his PhD in 1970 at the University of Oslo. From 1969 to 1974 he was curator at the Ethnographic museum of Oslo. Jan Brøgger became full professor in social anthropology at the University of Trondheim in 1975, a position he held until he died in 2006.
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Alan H. Goodman
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Alan H. Goodman is a biological anthropologist and author. He served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 2005 to 2007. With Yolanda Moses, he co-directs the American Anthropological Association's Public Education Project on Race. His teaching, research and writing focuses on understanding how poverty, inequality and racism “get under the skin.” He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Goodman was a pre-doctoral research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at th...
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Bonnie Nardi
#2001
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Bonnie A. Nardi is an emeritus professor of the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where she led the TechDec research lab in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. She is well known for her work on activity theory, interaction design, games, social media, and society and technology. She was elected to the ACM CHI academy in 2013. She retired in 2018.
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Mike Parker Pearson
#15664
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Michael Parker Pearson, is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial. A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previously worked for 25 years as a professor at the University of Sheffield in England, and was the director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project. A prolific author, he has also written a variety of books on the subject.
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David Kertzer
#7611
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
David Israel Kertzer is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown.
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Don Brothwell
#35642
Overall Influence
1933 - 2016 (83 years)
Donald Reginald Brothwell, was a British archaeologist, anthropologist and academic, who specialised in human palaeoecology and environmental archaeology. He had worked at the University of Cambridge, the British Museum, and the Institute of Archaeology of University of London, before ending his career as Professor of Human Palaeoecology at the University of York. He has been described as "one of the pioneers in the field of archaeological science".
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Izumi Shimada
#25394
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Izumi Shimada is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and 2007 Outstanding Scholar with research interests in the archaeology of complex pre-Hispanic cultures in the Andes, the technology and organization of craft production, mortuary analysis, experimental archaeology, the role of ideology and organized religion in cultural developments, and ecology-culture interaction.
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Meredith Small
#11050
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (74 years)
Meredith Francesca Small is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Cornell University and popular science author. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She has been widely published in academic journals, and her research is presented in her most popular book: Our Babies, Ourselves. She spent many years studying both people and primate behaviour. Her current area of interest is in the intersection of biology and culture, and how that has influenced parenting.
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Hazel Tucker
#57448
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Hazel Mary Tucker is an English-born New Zealand social anthropologist. She is Professor of Tourism at the University of Otago. Academic career Tucker graduated from Durham University, England with a PhD in social anthropology in 1999. She moved to New Zealand in January 2000 to lecture at the University of Otago and was promoted to full professor there, with effect from 1 February 2019.
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João Biehl
#28469
Overall Influence
João Guilherme Biehl is a Brazilian anthropologist who is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, where he is also the Co-Director of the Program of Global Health and Health Policy and where he holds an Old Dominion Professorship at the Council of Humanities, as well as being a Visitor at the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study. He specializes in medical anthropology, and his interests include social studies of science and religion, psychological anthropology, globalization and development, global health, ethnographic methods, critical theory, and Brazilian and Latin American societies.
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Piers Vitebsky
#27921
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (75 years)
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist who was Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies and Assistant Director of Research at the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge in England.
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Philip Lieberman
#17299
Overall Influence
1934 - 2022 (88 years)
Philip Lieberman was a cognitive scientist at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Originally trained in phonetics, he wrote a dissertation on intonation. His career focused on topics in the evolution of language, and particularly the relationship between the evolution of the vocal tract, the human brain, and the evolution of speech, cognition and language.
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Gerd Koch
#12684
Overall Influence
1922 - 2005 (83 years)
Gerd Koch was a German cultural anthropologist best known for his studies on the material culture of Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific. He was associated with the Ethnological Museum of Berlin . His field work was directed to researching and recording the use of artefacts in their indigenous context, to begin to understand these societies.
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Manuel Delgado Ruiz
#53858
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Manuel Delgado Ruiz is a Catalan anthropologist. He graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Art History and later obtained a doctorate in anthropology there. He continued his graduate studies at the Religious Sciences department of the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne. Since 1986, he has been Professor of Religious Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at his alma mater.
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Nazif Shahrani
#25368
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
M. Nazif Shahrani is a professor of anthropology, Central Asian Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Life Nazif Shahrani was born in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. He completed his elementary education in the village of Shahran-i-Khaash, in Jurm district of Badakhshan, attended Ibnisina Middle School and Kabul Darul Mu'alimin in Kabul before entering the Faculty of Education at Kabul University, Afghanistan.
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Francis Clark Howell
#30307
Overall Influence
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Francis Clark Howell , generally known as F. Clark Howell, was an American anthropologist. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, F. Clark Howell grew up in Kansas, where he became interested in natural history. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1946 in the Pacific Theater. Howell was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees under the tutelage of Sherwood L. Washburn.
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Paul T. Baker
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Overall Influence
1927 - 2007 (80 years)
Paul Thornell Baker was Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, and was “one of the most influential biological anthropologists of his generation, contributing substantially to the transformation of the field from a largely descriptive to a hypothesis-driven science in the latter half of the 20th century. He pioneered multidisciplinary field science, firmly established a place for biological anthropology and human population biology in national and international science, and trained a host of graduate students in good science, who, in turn, continued...
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Ernestine Friedl
#43590
Overall Influence
1920 - 2015 (95 years)
Ernestine Friedl was an American anthropologist, author, and professor. She served as the president of both the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association . Friedl was also the first female Dean of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College at Duke University, and was a James B. Duke Professor Emerita. A building on Duke's campus, housing the departments of African and African American Studies, Cultural Anthropology, the Latino/Latina Studies program, and Literature was named in her honor in 2008. Her major interests included gender roles, rural life in modern Greece, and the St.
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Lauriston Sharp
#38322
Overall Influence
1907 - 1993 (86 years)
Lauriston Sharp was a Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He was the first person appointed in anthropology at the university, and he created its Southeast Asia Program, research centers in Asia and North and South America, a multidisciplinary faculty and strong language program. He was a founding member of the Society for Applied Anthropology and a founding trustee of the Asia Society.
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Arthur Demarest
#32934
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Arthur Andrew Demarest is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization. Career Demarest, a Louisiana Cajun, studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology at Tulane University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Dean's Medal. Demarest earned his M.A. and doctorate in anthropology and archaeology at Harvard University, he held the endowed Danforth Chair in Archeology, and was elected to the prestigious Harvard Society of Fellows. From 1984 to 1986 he served as assistant professor at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US. In 1986 he was promoted to Full Professor and was named to the endowed Centennial Chair.
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Laura Miller
#36766
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Laura Miller is an American anthropologist and the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She held various academic positions and jobs in both the United States and Japan before accepting this named chair in 2010.
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Kwang-chih Chang
#19874
Overall Influence
1931 - 2001 (70 years)
Kwang-chih Chang , commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Chinese / Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist. He was the John E. Hudson Professor of archaeology at Harvard University, Vice-President of the Academia Sinica, and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of archaeology to the study of ancient Chinese history. He also introduced new discoveries in Chinese archaeology to western audiences by translating works from Chinese to English. He pioneered the study of Taiwanese archaeology, encouraged multi-disciplinal anth...
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A. Roberto Frisancho
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (85 years)
A. Roberto Frisancho is a biological anthropologist and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the 2008 recipient of the Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award in Anthropology bestowed by the American Human Biology Association. He is best known for his work on developmental human adaptation to extreme environments such as high altitudes, growth, anthropometry and evaluation of nutritional status. Specifically, he advanced the hypothesis and demonstrated that the origin of adult variability of biological phenotypic traits are function of the e...
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Judith Shapiro
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Judith R. Shapiro is a former President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women at Columbia University; as President of Barnard, she was also an academic dean within the university. She was also a professor of anthropology at Barnard. Shapiro became Barnard's 6th president in 1994 after a teaching career at Bryn Mawr College where she was chair of the Department of Anthropology. After serving as Acting Dean of the Undergraduate College in 1985-6, she was Provost, the chief academic officer, from 1986 until 1994. Debora L. Spar was appointed to replace Shapiro, effective July 1...
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Bernard Arcand
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Overall Influence
1945 - 2009 (64 years)
Bernard Arcand was a French-Canadian anthropologist, author and communicator. He was for several decades a professor of the anthropology department of Laval University. Born in Deschambault, Québec, he was film director Denys Arcand and actor Gabriel Arcand's brother. He studied social sciences at the Université de Montréal . He later studied at the University of Cambridge where he obtained a certificate and a doctorate , in social anthropology. He taught at Copenhagen University in 1971, and then as an assistant professor at McGill University between 1972 and 1976. He was assistant and the...
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Wade Davis
#5762
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Edmund Wade Davis is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. He is professor of anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia.
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Gerald Berreman
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2013 (83 years)
Gerald Duane Berreman was an American anthropologist and ethnographer who was known for his theory on the caste system in India, as well as his contributions to the ethical practice of anthropology itself. Berreman spoke out during the Vietnam War era about the working relationship between anthropologists and the CIA. His anthropological work focused on the study of social stratification, in which he drew parallels between racial inequality in the United States and the caste system in India.
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Hans Peter Duerr
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Hans Peter Duerr is a German anthropologist and author of ten books on anthropology. Duerr studied at both the University of Vienna and the University of Heidelberg, eventually gaining his doctorate in 1971 with a dissertation on consciousness theory in philosophy. From 1975 through to 1980 he worked as a lecturer and visiting professor of ethnology and cultural history at the University of Zurich, University of Kassel and University of Bern, before settling down permanently at Kassel. From 1992 to 1999 he taught as a professor of anthropology and cultural history at the University of Bremen,...
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David H. French
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Overall Influence
1918 - 1994 (76 years)
David Heath French was an American anthropologist and linguist from Bend, Oregon. During his lifetime he was considered the foremost academic authority on the Chinookan people of the middle Columbia River, especially the Wasco-Wishram Chinooks of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. His research focused on ethnobotany and language.
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Rupert Moser
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (80 years)
Rupert Moser is professor emeritus for social anthropology and African studies at the University of Bern. He conducted research on the paternal Ngoni and the matrilineal Mwera in southern Tanzania. He did further work on the genesis of Swahili, migration and religious movements.
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Hans Fleischhacker
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Overall Influence
1912 - 1992 (80 years)
Hans Fleischhacker was a German anthropologist with the Ahnenerbe and a commander in the SS of Nazi Germany. He worked with Bruno Beger on some projects, making measurements of Jewish people. He was with Beger at Auschwitz when the people were selected to be part of the Jewish skull collection, a project of the Ahnenerbe. At their post-war trial, Beger was found guilty of full knowledge of the scope of that project, while Fleischhacker was found not to be aware that the purpose of the measurements was to select the 86 people to be murdered at Natzweiler-Struthof camp.
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Harvey Whitehouse
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (60 years)
Harvey Whitehouse is chair of social anthropology and professorial fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. Education and early career Whitehouse received his B.A. degree in social anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1985. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 1990.
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Yoshihiro Senda
#43793
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Yoshihiro Senda is a Japanese castle archeologist. He is a professor at Nara University and was president of the university from April 2014 to August 2016. His work focuses on the excavation and maintenance of castles from medieval and modern Japan, as well as comparative studies of castles around the world including those in Europe and Mongolia. He received the Hamada Seiryō Prize in 2015. He worked as a historical consultant for the taiga drama Sanada Maru in 2016. He has made several appearances on television. His books include Nobunaga's Castles, published by Iwanami Shoten.
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz
#24849
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a fellow and President of the World Academy of Art and Science from 2008-2012.
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Godfrey Lienhardt
#44834
Overall Influence
1921 - 1993 (72 years)
Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt was a British anthropologist. He took many photographs of the Dinka people he studied. He wrote about their religion in Divinity and Experience: the Religion of the Dinka. Life and field work Born in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, of mixed Swiss and Yorkshire parentage, he went to Cambridge University in 1939, where he read English at Downing College under F. R. Leavis until he was called up and became a transport officer, stationed in Africa. He was followed in 1946 to Downing by his brother Peter Lienhardt, who also read English and became an anthropologist.
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Santiago Genovés
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Overall Influence
1923 - 2013 (90 years)
Santiago Genovés Tarazaga was a Spanish-born Mexican anthropologist who was affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He designed the 1973 "Peace Project" experiment, in which he and ten other people aimed to sail on the Acali raft from the Canary Islands to Mexico. He hoped that this experiment would shed light on the causes of violence in humans and on how it could be prevented. The 101-day experiment, frequently dubbed the "Sex Raft" by the media, was the subject of the 2018 documentary film The Raft, by Marcus Lindeen. He was also one of the researchers who originated...
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Helen Codere
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Overall Influence
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Helen Frances Codere was an American cultural anthropologist who received her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University where she studied with Ruth Benedict. She is best known for her work with the Kwakwaka'wakw people of coastal British Columbia, Canada, known formerly as the "Kwakiutl."
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