Ruth Benedict (1887- 1984)
One of the first women to make major contributions to the study of anthropology. Benedict also helped to popularize the subject for wider audiences. Moreover, she proved women had unique and fresh perspectives that enlarged the world of science.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Margaret Mead was the rebel anthropologist of the United States. Her style of writing, controversial research regarding sex and outspoken personality gave her prominence beyond the world of anthropology. Her research brought her to the South Pacific- Samoa, where she suggested that culture, not just biology, has an impact on adolescent behavior.
Publications: “Coming of Age in Samoa”); A rap on race; Growing up in New Guinea;
Zora Hurston (1891-1960)
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She [Neale Hurston] portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
Publications: Barracoon: The story of the last "Black Cargo"(2018); Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick (2020) (These are the most recent publications). Follow the link below to see other publications by Zora Neale Hurston.
Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
Dr. Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla group from 1966-1985.
Publication: Gorilla in the mist (1983)
Franz Boas (1858-1942)
He is considered the Father of Modern Anthropology. He played a key role in organizing the American Anthropological Association and made contributions in the field of physical anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, as well as cultural anthropology. He argued against the theories that distinguished people on the basis of race and discredited the belief that western civilization is superior to the other societies.
Publications:The Mind of Primitive Man; Anthropology and Modern Life;
David Graeber (1961-
He was a Yale professor from 1998 to 2007. He specialized in theories of value and social theory. His activism includes protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, and the 2002 World Economic. He coined the slogan, "We are the 99 percent".
Publications: Debt: the first 5,000 years (2011); Revolutions in reverse (2011); Direct action: an ethnography (2009); Possibilities: Essays on hierarchy, rebellion, and desire (2007); Toward an anthropological theory of value: the false coin of our own dreams (2001).
Arjun Appadurai (1949-
Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist [undefined] in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization.
Publication: The future as cultural fact: Essays on the global condition (2013); Banking on words: The failure of language in the age of derivative finance (2015); Failure (2019)
Franz Boas (1858-1944)
Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential anthropologist ever. He is considered to be the "father" of modern anthropology.
Mary Douglas (1921-2007)
Mary Douglas Is a British anthropologist known for her writings on human culture and symbolism.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942)
A Polish-British anthropologist, is known and remembered as the father of functionalist school of anthropology.
Pyramids of Giza
The largest Pyramids. It is located in Egypt
Entrance leading to the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid of Khufu
Pyramid of the sun at Teotihuacan
Temple of the warriors