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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.
Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace (April 15, 1923 – October 5, 2015) was a Canadian-American anthropologist who specialized in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expressed an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology. He was famous for the theory of revitalization movements. [1]
Laura Nader (born February 16, 1930) is an American anthropologist.She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. [1] She was the first woman to receive a tenure-track position in the department.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, ...
Alan Macfarlane; Saba Mahmood; Bronisław Malinowski; George Marcus; Jonathan M. Marks; Karl Marx; John Alden Mason; Michael Atwood Mason; Marcel Mauss; Phillip McArthur
Jonathan Mitchell Marks (born February 8, 1955) is a professor of biological anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.He is known for his work comparing the genetics of humans and other apes, and for his critiques of scientific racism, biological determinism, and what he argues is an overemphasis on scientific rationalism in anthropology.
Central to antihumanism is the view that philosophical anthropology [2] and its concepts of "human nature", "man" or "humanity" should be rejected as historically relative, ideological or metaphysical. [3]
David W. Anthony is an American anthropologist who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Hartwick College. He specializes in Indo-European migrations, and is a proponent of the Kurgan hypothesis. Anthony is well known for his award-winning book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language (2007).