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Born December 16, 1901 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died November 15, 1978 (aged 76) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (1979)
Notable Works “A Rap on Race” • “Coming of Age in Samoa” • “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”
Notable Family Members spouse Gregory Bateson

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Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Frederic Ward Putnam.
Frederic Ward Putnam
American anthropologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Bastian
Adolf Bastian
German ethnologist
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Sol Tax
American anthropologist
Roland B. Dixon
American anthropologist
The Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap, illustration by William Henry Holmes from Clarence E. Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, 1882.
William Henry Holmes
American archaeologist
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and author
Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Kevin Young
Kevin Young
American poet, essayist, and editor
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
American museum curator
Beaumont Newhall
American photography historian, writer, and curator
Daniel Lieberman
Daniel Lieberman
American paleoanthropologist
Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist
Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist

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