List of scholars of ethnology
This list of scholars of ethnology contains people who contributed in some form to the discipline of
peoples
and the relationship between them.
Name | Birth | Death | Nationality |
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Joan Amades | July 23, 1890 | January 17, 1959 | Spain |
Léon Ashkenazi | June 21, 1922 | October 21, 1996 | Israel |
Amadou Hampâté Bâ | 1901 | May 15, 1991 | Mali |
Johann Jakob Bachofen | December 22, 1815 | November 25, 1887 | Germany |
Georges Balandier | December 21, 1920 | October 5, 2016 | France |
Heinrich Barth | February 16, 1821 | November 25, 1865 | Germany |
Adolf Bastian | June 26, 1826 | February 2, 1905 | Germany |
Roger Bastide | April 1, 1898 | April 10, 1974 | France |
Gregory Bateson | May 9, 1904 | July 4, 1980 | United Kingdom |
Ruth Benedict | June 5, 1887 | September 17, 1948 | United States |
Zuzana Beňušková | October 27, 1960 | Slovakia | |
Gösta Berg | July 31, 1903 | March 12, 1993 | Sweden |
Franz Boas | July 9, 1858 | December 21, 1942 | Germany/United States |
Napoleon Chagnon | August 27, 1938 | United States | |
Charlotte Gower Chapman | 1902 | 1982 | United States |
Pierre Clastres | May 17, 1934 | July 29, 1977 | France |
Heinrich Cunow | April 11, 1862 | August 20, 1936 | Germany |
Wade Davis | December 14, 1953 | Canada | |
Samuel de Champlain | August 13, 1574 | December 25, 1635 | France |
Jared Diamond | September 10, 1937 | United States | |
Germaine Dieterlen | May 15, 1903 | November 13, 1999 | France |
Mary Douglas | March 25, 1921 | May 16, 2007 | United Kingdom |
Cora Du Bois | October 26, 1903 | April 7, 1991 | United States |
Louis Dumont | 1911 | November 19, 1998 | France |
Mircea Eliade | March 9, 1907 | April 22, 1986 | Romania |
Moisés Espírito Santo Bagagem | 1934 | Portugal | |
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
|
September 21, 1902 | September 11, 1973 | United Kingdom |
Safi Faye | November 22, 1943 | Senegal | |
Raymond Firth | March 25, 1901 | February 22, 2002 | United Kingdom |
Robert J. Flaherty | February 16, 1884 | July 23, 1951 | United States |
Johann Georg Adam Forster | November 27, 1754 | January 10, 1794 | Germany |
Meyer Fortes | April 25, 1906 | January 27, 1983 | South Africa |
Reo Fortune | March 27, 1903 | November 25, 1979 | New Zealand |
James George Frazer | January 1, 1854 | May 7, 1941 | Scotland/United Kingdom |
Leo Frobenius | June 29, 1873 | August 9, 1938 | Germany |
Arnold van Gennep | April 23, 1873 | May 7, 1957 | France |
Clifford Geertz | August 23, 1926 | October 30, 2006 | United States |
Hallgerður Gísladóttir | September 28, 1952 | February 1, 2007 | Iceland |
Max Gluckman | January 26, 1911 | April 13, 1975 | South Africa/United Kingdom |
Fritz Graebner | March 4, 1877 | July 13, 1934 | Germany |
Henry Gravrand | 1921 | July 11, 2003 | France |
Marcel Griaule | May 16, 1898 | February 23, 1956 | France |
Brothers Grimm | January 4, 1785 (Jacob) | September 20, 1863 | Germany |
February 24, 1786 (Wilhelm) | December 16, 1859 | ||
Hans F. K. Günther | February 16, 1891 | September 25, 1968 | Germany |
Thomas Højrup | 1953 | Denmark | |
Horatio Hale | May 3, 1817 | December 28, 1896 | United States/Canada |
Melville J. Herskovits | September 10, 1895 | February 25, 1963 | United States |
Te Rangi Hīroa
|
October 1877 | December 1, 1951 | New Zealand |
Robert Jaulin | March 7, 1928 | November 21, 1996 | France |
Adolf Ellegard Jensen | January 1, 1899 | May 20, 1965 | Germany |
Ulrike Krasberg | August 12, 1950 | East Germany/Germany | |
Gerd Koch | July 11, 1922 | April 19, 2005 | Germany |
Alfred L. Kroeber
|
June 11, 1876 | October 5, 1960 | United States |
Yanagita Kunio
|
July 31, 1875 | August 8, 1962 | Japan |
Claude Lévi-Strauss | November 28, 1908 | October 30, 2009 | France |
Orvar Löfgren | 1943 | Sweden | |
Robert H. Lowie
|
June 12, 1883 | September 21, 1957 | United States |
Bronisław Malinowski | April 7, 1884 | May 16, 1942 | United Kingdom |
Marcel Mauss | May 10, 1872 | February 10, 1950 | France |
David Maybury-Lewis | May 5, 1929 | December 2, 2007 | Pakistan |
Margaret Mead | December 16, 1901 | November 15, 1978 | United States |
Alfred Metraux
|
November 5, 1902 | April 11, 1963 | Switzerland |
James Mooney | February 10, 1861 | December 22, 1921 | United States |
August 13, 1948 | United States | ||
August 15, 1634 | 1682 | France | |
Josiah Nott
|
March 31, 1804 | March 31, 1873 | United States |
Anna-Maja Nylén | March 24, 1912 | February 27, 1976 | Sweden |
Dositej Obradović | February 17, 1739 | April 7, 1811 | Serbia |
Karl Polanyi | October 25, 1886 | April 23, 1964 | Austria-Hungary |
Antun Radić | June 11, 1868 | February 10, 1919 | Croatia |
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | January 17, 1881 | October 24, 1955 | United Kingdom |
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | January 17, 1881 | October 24, 1955 | United Kingdom |
Mirko Ramovš | October 5, 1935 | May 19, 2023 | Slovenia |
Paul Rivet | May 7, 1876 | March 25, 1958 | France |
Jean Rouch | May 31, 1917 | February 18, 2004 | France |
Marshall Sahlins | December 27, 1930 | United States | |
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow | December 21, 1878 | March 4, 1952 | Sweden |
Wilhelm Schmidt | February 16, 1868 | February 10, 1954 | Austria |
Carl-Herman Tillhagen | December 17, 1906 | May 28, 2002 | Sweden |
Colin M. Turnbull
|
November 23, 1924 | July 28, 1994 | United Kingdom/United States |
Edward Burnett Tylor | October 2, 1832 | January 2, 1917 | United Kingdom |
Jean-Christophe Victor | May 30, 1947 | December 28, 2016 | France |
Victor Turner | May 28, 1920 | December 18, 1983 | United Kingdom |
Huang Xianfan | November 13, 1899 | January 18, 1982 | China |