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Catherine A. Lutz (/ l ĘŚ t s /; born 1952) is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. [1] She is also a Research Professor at the Watson Institute where she serves as a director of the Costs of War Project , which attempts to calculate the financial ...
Nina Grace Jablonski [1] (born August 20, 1953) [2] [3] is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, an anthropologist. An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. [1] [2] [3] Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values, and general behavior of societies.
Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) [1] is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies. [2]
Maurice Bloch was born in Caen, Calvados, to Jewish parents Claudette (née Raphael), a marine biologist, and Pierre Bloch, an engineer. His grandmother was a niece of sociologist Emile Durkheim and a much younger first cousin of anthropologist Marcel Mauss. [2]
Enid Gabriella Coleman (usually known as Gabriella Coleman or Biella; born 1973) is an anthropologist, academic and author whose work focuses on politics, cultures of hacking and online activism, and has covered distinct hacker communities, such as hackers of free and open-source software, Anonymous and security hackers.
In 2009 she retired as Regents' Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona, [5] [3] but continued to work on a variety of research projects until her death. Hill published more than 100 articles and chapters, as well as eight books, [ 3 ] spanning many sub-disciplines of both linguistics and anthropology.
Barth's introduction to Ethnic Groups and Boundaries became his most well-known essay and "ended up among the top 100 on the social science citation index for a number of years.". [4]: 10 In 1974 Barth moved to Oslo, where he became professor of social anthropology and the head of the city's Museum of Cultural History. During this period ...