* 1926 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist ( d. 2006 )

The anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined religion as a " system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

* August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist

** " Geertz's primordialism ", notably espoused by anthropologist Clifford Geertz, argues that humans in general attribute an overwhelming power to primordial human " givens " such as blood ties, language, territory, and cultural differences.

The American anthropologist Clifford Geertz in the 1960s divided the Javanese community into three aliran or " streams ": santri, abangan and priyayi.

Clifford James Geertz ( August 23, 1926, San Francisco – October 30, 2006, Philadelphia ) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered " for three decades ... the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States.

The term was used by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz in his The Interpretation of Cultures ( 1973 ) to describe his own method of doing ethnography ( Geertz 1973: 5-6, 9-10 ).

Harvard anthropologist Clifford Geertz was cited as an influence on literary critics like Stephen Greenblatt, while other literary / cultural scholars turned to works by Victor Turner and Mary Douglas.

* Geertz, Clifford ( 1995 ) After the fact: two countries, four decades, one anthropologist.

The American cultural anthropologist, Clifford Geertz, identified three main cultural streams ( aliran in Indonesian ) in Javanese society.

He was married first to the anthropologist Hildred Geertz.

Deciding to author a book on the subject, he wrote Keris and Other Malay Weapons, being encouraged to do so by anthropologist friends ; it would subsequently edited into a readable form by Betty Lumsden Milne and published by the Singapore-based Progressive Publishing Company in 1936.

The anthropologist Paul Rabinow wrote a book on the history of the PCR method in 1996 ( entitled Making PCR ) in which he discussed whether or not Mullis " invented " PCR or " merely " came up with the concept of it.

In 1895, Stewart Culin, an American anthropologist, wrote a paper in which mahjong was mentioned.

Martin Orans, another anthropologist who worked in Samoa, wrote:

In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote " supermodel " in his book Men Out of Asia.

Two millennia before the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss wrote The Raw and the Cooked, the Chinese differentiated " raw " and " cooked " categories of barbarian peoples who lived in China.

For example, noted African-American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston worked extensively as an apprentice for various hoodoo doctors and wrote about her experiences.

The anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski wrote to the Norwegian press in support of Reich.

" Reich received support from overseas, first from the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), who wrote to the press in Norway in March 1938 that Reich's " sociological works ... a distinct and valuable contribution toward science ," and from A. S. Neill ( 1883 – 1973 ), founder of Summerhill, a progressive school in England, who argued that " the campaign against Reich seems largely ignorant and uncivilized, more like fascism than democracy ..."

At Bloomington, he wrote several essays about his native Chewa tribe for the folklorist Stith Thompson, who introduced him to Edward Sapir, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, to which, after four semesters, he transferred.

Forensic anthropologist Caroline Wilkenson wrote in 2004 that Australoids have the largest brow ridges " with moderate to large supraorbital arches ", so they have the smallest brow ridges.

) His second wife, Theodora Kraków Kroeber, also an anthropologist, wrote a well-known biography of Ishi, Ishi in Two Worlds.

Colin M. Turnbull, an American anthropologist, wrote a book about the Efé Pygmies, The Forest People, in 1965.

The anthropologist Shelton Davis wrote that " The Villas-Bôas brothers further argued that it was the responsibility of the federal government to provide a secure protective buffer, in the form of closed Indian parks and reserves, between Indians and the frontiers of national society.

In the foreword of the book Xingu: the Indians, Their Myths the anthropologist Kenneth S. Brecher wrote that

William S. Laughlin ( August 26, 1919 – April 6, 2001 ) was an American anthropologist who carried on research and wrote about aboriginal peoples in the Aleutians and Greenland.

German philosopher and anthropologist of law Axel Montenbruck wrote that Dehumanization is inextricably linked with both the “ techniques of neutralization ” ( Matza / Sykes ) and to the obedience aspects of the Milgram-experiment and in a wider sense with Zimbardos Stanford prison-experiment.

Photographer Margaret Morton made the photo book The Tunnel, film maker Mark Singer made the documentary Dark Days and anthropologist Teun Voeten wrote Tunnel People.

In the mid-1990s, while Tomczak was still involved in the group's leadership, religious anthropologist Dr. Karla Poewe wrote that " Vineyard is particularly attractive to the young and intellectual ... People of Destiny serves a Catholic constituency.

He was an anthropologist who wrote about the ' primitive mind '.

" As Wendy Perron wrote, " Jazz dance, ' fusion ,' and the search for our cultural identity all have their antecedents in Dunham's work as a dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist.

" A woman with long thick hair demonstrated the life force, the multiplying power of profusion, prosperity ... a green thumb for raising bountiful farms and many healthy children ", wrote Sylvia Ardyn Boone, an anthropologist specializing in the Mende culture of Sierra Leone.

She is foremost an anthropologist and a folklorist on which she wrote a book called Listening for a Life.

In 1941 anthropologist Robert Redfield wrote about a shift from ' folk society ' to ' urban society '.

One influential hypothesis was given by the anthropologist James Frazer, who in 1906 said that Osiris, like other " dying and rising gods " across the ancient Near East, began as a personification of vegetation.

Sir James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ), was a Scottish social anthropologist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.

* Bruno Latour ( born 1947 ), anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of science and technology studies.

Bruno Latour (; born 22 June 1947 ) is a French sociologist of science and anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies ( STS ).

After the war, he did a brief stint as a journalist with Agence France-Presse before returning to Africa where he become an influential anthropologist and sometimes controversial filmmaker.

Clinton was the home of the highly influential 19th century ethnologist and anthropologist Horatio Hale, who involved himself locally in real estate development and other business and educational endeavours.

* Horatio Hale ( 1817 – 1896 ) influential early ethnologist and anthropologist

Aldo Massola ( 1910 – 1975 ) was an Italian-Australian anthropologist, a curator at the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne from 1954 to 1964, who overcame scandal in his personal life to author a number of influential books about Victoria's indigenous Koori population.

From the Soil ( ISBN 0-520-07796-2 ), first published in 1947, is an influential work by Fei Xiaotong ( 1910-2005 ), a pioneering Chinese sociologist and anthropologist.

The influential anthropologist, Franz Boas used a somewhat different set of symbols ( Boas 1911 ).

Giuseppe Sergi ( 1841 – 1936 ) was an influential Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of ancient Mediterranean peoples.

Gayle S. Rubin ( born 1949 ) is a cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and influential theorist of sex and gender politics.

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is an influential 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict.