Anthropologist

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An anthropologist is a person who studies human beings and how they behave. The study of human beings is called anthropology.

Some important anthropologists are:

  • Ruth Benedict
  • Franz Boas
  • Pere Bosch-Gimpera
  • Napoleon Chagnon
  • Marvin Harris
  • Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Alfred L. Kroeber
  • Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Marcel Mauss
  • Margaret Mead
  • Alfred Metraux
  • James Mooney
  • Lewis H Morgan
  • George Murdock
  • Erland Nordenskiold
  • Bronislav Pilsudski
  • Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
  • Frank G. Speck
  • Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Colin Turnbull
  • Clark Wissler
  • Eric R. Wolf