Franz Boas: The "father" of modern American anthropology
 

• Major Anthropological Theorists

 

General Guides of Anthropological Theories & Theorists:

 
• Anthropological Theories: A Guide Prepared for Students by Students at University of Alabama
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/murphy/anthros.htm
• Theories and Key Theorists in Cultural Anthropology
http://www.qvctc.commnet.edu/QVCTC/brian/thrstan.html
• "Theory in Anthropology", Prepared by Students at Indiana University under the Supervisi
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm#time

Major  Theorists  in  the  History  of  Anthropology:

• Arjun Appadurai
• Gregory Bateson
• Ruth Benedict
• Lewis R. Binford
• Franz Boas
• Robert Leonard Carneiro
• Napoleon Chagnon
• Gordan Childe
• Noam Chomsky
• Charles Darwin
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Emile Durkheim
• E.E.Evans-Pritchard
• Sir James George Frazer
• Raymond Firth
• Morton Fried
• Clifford Geertz
• Carol J. Greenhouse
• Jane Guyer
• Marvin Harris
• Melville Jean Herskovits
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Alfred Kroeber
• Eleanor Burke Leacock
• Louis Leakey
• Mary Leaky
• Jean Baptiste Lemarck
• Claude Levi-Strauss
• Robert H. Lowie
• Bronislaw Malinowski
• Marcel Mauss
• Margaret Mead
• Gregor Mendel
• Lewis Henry Morgan
• Sherry Ortner
• A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
• Roy A. Rappaport
• Marshall Sahlins
• Edward Sapir
• Julian Steward
• Victor Turner
• Edward Tylor
• Leslie White
• Karl August Wittfogel
• Eric Wolf

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