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Michel Foucault
French philosopher (1926–1984)
Émile Durkheim
French sociologist (1858–1917)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Pierre Bourdieu
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
Bernardo Arévalo de León
President of Guatemala since 2024
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Edvard Westermarck
Finnish academic (1862–1939)
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
Loïc Wacquant
French sociologist
Raymond Firth
ethnologist from New Zealand
Max Gluckman
South African anthropologist (1911–1975)
Walter Baldwin Spencer
English-Australian biologist and anthropologist. (1860–1929)
Hilma Granqvist
Finnish anthropologist (1890–1972)
Gertrude Blom
Swiss Mesoamericanists (1901–1993)
Madawi al-Rasheed
Saudi professor of social anthropology
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Angolan film director (1941-2010)
Veena Das
Indian anthropologist
Mai Yamani
yemeni anthropologist
Roberts Ķīlis
Latvian politician and social anthropologist (1968–2022)
Ulf Hannerz
Swedish anthropologist
Meyer Fortes
South African anthropologist (1906–1983)
Žarana Papić
Yugoslav feminist (1949-2002)
Derek Freeman
New Zealand anthropologist (1916-2001)
Traian Herseni
Romanian sociologist, historian and psychologist (1907-1980)
Susan Visvanathan
Sociologist and Fiction Writer
Emanuel Marx
Israeli social anthropologist
Adam Kuper
British anthropologist
Ana Luisa Valdés
Uruguayan author and translator
Marianna Dushar
Ukrainian anthropologist
Kathleen M. Adams
American anthropologist
Arthur Bernard Deacon
English social anthropologist (1903–1927)
Mercedes Fernández-Martorell
Spanish writer and anthropologist
Georg Pfeffer
German anthropologist (1943–2020)
Saddeka Arebi
Anthropologist, author
Unni Wikan
Norwegian anthropologist
Bruce Kapferer
Australian anthropologist (born 1940)
Rane Willerslev
Danish anthropologist
Dina Dreyfus
French anthropologist (1911–1999)
Hilda Kuper
South African anthropologist (1911-1992)
Néstor Perlongher
Argentine writer and activist (1949–1992)
María Dolores Juliano Corregido
Argentine cultural anthropologist
Aleksandar Boskovic
Serbian anthropologist (born 1962)
Regula Tschumi
Swiss ethnologist
Teresa San Román Espinosa
Spanish anthropologist and university professor
David Maybury-Lewis
American social anthropologist, researcher and university teacher (1929-2007)
Smadar Lavie
Israeli anthropologist
Eduardo P. Archetti
Argentine anthropologist, sociologist, essayist (1943-2005)
Clarisa Hardy
Argentinian-born Chilean politician, anthropologist and psychologist
John Arundel Barnes
Australian and British anthropologist
Iver B. Neumann
Norwegian academic
Elizabeth Colson
US social anthropologist (1917-2016)