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Joseph Campbell
Anthropologist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1904 - 1987
Joseph Campbell was a professor and author who focused on comparative folklore with books like The Power of Myth and The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
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(1904-1987)
Anthropologist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Ann Dunham
Anthropologist / 1942 - 1995
Ann Dunham was the mother of Barack Obama, who became the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American to hold this office.
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(1942-1995)
Anthropologist
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Katherine Dunham
Anthropologist, Activist, Choreographer, Journalist / 1909 - 2006
Katherine Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist noted for her innovative interpretations of ritualistic and ethnic dances.
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(1909-2006)
Anthropologist, Activist, Choreographer, Journalist
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Michel Foucault
Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1926 - 1984
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and historian. His best known works are Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.
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(1926-1984)
Anthropologist, Educator, Historian, Philosopher, Scholar, Activist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Francis Galton
Anthropologist, Explorer, Inventor, Scientist, Academic Author / 1822 - 1911
Francis Galton was an English explorer and anthropologist best known for his research in eugenics and human intelligence. He was the first to study the effects of human selective mating.
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(1822-1911)
Anthropologist, Explorer, Inventor, Scientist, Academic Author
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Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist, Educator, Journalist / 1926 - 2006
Clifford Geertz was a leading proponent of a form of anthropology that stresses the importance of symbols and interpretation in human social life.
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(1926-2006)
Anthropologist, Educator, Journalist
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Alfred Kinsey
Anthropologist, Educator, Biologist, Zoologist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1894 - 1956
Biologist Alfred Kinsey wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was based on research he and his colleagues conducted at the Institute for Sex Research.
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(1894-1956)
Anthropologist, Educator, Biologist, Zoologist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Mary Leakey
Anthropologist, Scientist / 1913 - 1996
Mary Leakey was a paleoanthropologist who, along with husband Louis, made several prominent scientific discoveries. Skull fossils found by the Leakeys advanced our understanding of human evolution.
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(1913-1996)
Anthropologist, Scientist
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Bronislaw Malinowski
Anthropologist, Scientist / 1884 - 1942
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski is principally associated with studies of the peoples of Oceania and with the school of thought known as functionalism.
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(1884-1942)
Anthropologist, Scientist
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Margaret Mead
Anthropologist / 1901 - 1978
Margaret Mead is best known for her studies and publications on cultural anthropology.
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(1901-1978)
Anthropologist
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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Anthropologist, Sociologist / 1881 - 1955
British social anthropologist A.R. Radcliffe-Brown had a profound impact on British and American social anthropology through his version of Functionalism.
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(1881-1955)
Anthropologist, Sociologist