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James P. Spradley (1933–1982) was a social scientist and a professor of anthropology at Macalester College. [1] Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society (1972), Deaf Like Me (1979), The Ethnographic Interview (1979), and Participant Observation (1980).
The Anthropologist is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger of Ironbound Films. [1] The film follows environmental anthropologist Susie Crate and her teenage daughter Katie as they visit indigenous communities threatened by climate change .
Interview in Le Monde on Saba Mahmood's work on controversy over Muhammed's cartoon; Interview in Mediapart on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo murders in France; Interview on CBC radio with Saba Mahmood on "Myth of the Secular" Interview: Saba Mahmood, The Light in Her Eyes (documentary film) Archived March 14, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
David Rolfe Graeber (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ b ər /; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost ...
Smedley received her B.A. and M.A. in history and anthropology from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Manchester in the UK, based on field research in northern Nigeria. She taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in social anthropology, African societies and cultures, the history of ...
Cheikh Anta Diop (29 December 1923 – 7 February 1986) was a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race's origins and pre-colonial African culture. [1] Diop's work is considered foundational to the theory of Afrocentricity, though he himself never described himself as an Afrocentrist. [2]
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]
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.