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2002 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist/adventurer, Kon-Tiki, dies at 87

1999 Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, The Natural Superiority of Women, dies at 94

1996 Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72

1994 Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69

1994 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42

1994 Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53

1990 Michel Levis, French cultural anthropologist/writer, dies

1987 South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young

1978 Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts and Female), dies in New York at 76

1977 Loren C Eiseley, U.S. anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69

1973 Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95

1972 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68

1972 Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist (South American), dies at 70

1965 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73

1963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, U.S. anthropologist/writer, dies at 61

1956 Siegfried F Nadel, Australia/British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52

1951 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist

1947 Clark Wissler, U.S. cultural anthropologist, dies at 76

1945 Alfred Antony Francis Gell, social anthropologist

1944 Richard Leakey, anthropologist

1944 Richard [Erskine Frere] Leakey, Nairobi Kenya, anthropologist

1942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies

1941 Benjamin Whorf, anthropologist, dies

1940 Erik Erikson, anthropologist

1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1924 Colin Turnbull, anthropologist

1924 Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist

1922 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies

1921 Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture

1917 Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84

1916 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, dies at 73

1914 Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer, Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku

1914 Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist

1908 Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist, Structure Anthro

1903 Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist

1903 Louis Leakey, anthropologist, 1964 Richard Hooper Medal

1903 Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist, Black Byzantium

1902 Julian H Steward, U.S. anthropologist/professor

1901 Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist

1901 Margaret Mead, born in Philadelphia, anthropologist, Coming of Age in Samoa

1901 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist

1893 Ralph Linton, U.S. cultural anthropologist, Tree of Culture

1893 Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist, Eskimos

1892 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, Rassenkunde

1887 Ruth Benedict, U.S., anthropologist, Patterns of Culture

1881 Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist, Andaman Islanders

1877 Willem H Rassers, Dutch cultural anthropologist, Panji

1876 Alfred L. Kroeber, Hoboken, New Jersey, author, Anthropologist looks at History

1870 Clark Wissler, anthropologist, American Indian

1869 Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum

1868 Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos

1866 Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist

1858 Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist, Mind of Primitive Man

1854 James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author, The Golden Bough

1853 Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system

1842 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist, schedelmetingen

1832 Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist

1822 Francis Galton, Birmingham England, anthropologist and geneticist


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