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Émile Durkheim
Pierre Bourdieu
Edward Burnett Tylor
The father of American anthropology
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Bronisław Malinowski
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Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
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Manuel Gamio
Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
In Indonesia
Stanley Ann Dunham
American anthropologist
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Lee Berger
South African paleoanthropologist
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Daniel Lieberman
Daniel Lieberman
American paleoanthropologist
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Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour
French sociologist and anthropologist
Johanson, Donald C.
Donald Johanson
American paleoanthropologist
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Marshall Sahlins
American anthropologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
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Anne Salmond
New Zealand anthropologist and historian
Meave G. Leakey
Meave G. Leakey
British paleoanthropologist
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Gregory Bateson
British-born American anthropologist
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Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Johnnetta Cole
Johnnetta Cole
American anthropologist and educator
Ortiz, Fernando
Fernando Ortiz
Cuban anthropologist