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Born 1876 • France
Died March 25, 1958 (aged 82) • Paris • France
Founder Musée de l’Homme
Subjects Of Study Andean civilization • Aymaran languages • Quechuan languages
Marcel Mauss
French sociologist and anthropologist
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist
Arnold van Gennep
French anthropologist
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
Italian philosopher
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Elsie Clews Parsons.
Elsie Clews Parsons
American anthropologist
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian ethnologist
Ruth Benedict
Ruth Benedict
American anthropologist and author
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American anthropologist
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Matilda Coxe Stevenson
American ethnologist
Pearl Primus
Pearl Primus
American anthropologist, dancer, and choreographer