Anthropology

When most anthropologists were sketching cultures through notebooks and memory, Christoph Haimendorf was already capturing

Before Bronisław Malinowski, anthropologists wrote about cultures from secondhand reports-books, colonial documents, and

August Weismann (1834-1914) was a German evolutionary biologist whose work revolutionized how scientists understand

Ashley Montagu was a groundbreaking anthropologist and passionate humanist who dedicated his life to challenging racism

Abram Kardiner (1891-1981) was a pioneering American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who made a lasting

Claude Lévi-Strauss didn’t just study myths-he changed how we understand them. Born in 1908 and active well into the late 20th century, Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology by introducing structuralism, a method that sought to uncover the hidden patterns behind human thought,…

Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England, into a wealthy and well-educated family.

Catherine Helen Berndt was born in 1918 in Auckland, New Zealand, into a family of Scottish and Nova Scotian descent.

Surjit Chandra Sinha was a pioneering Indian anthropologist whose work reshaped the understanding of

Few figures in 20th-century social science sparked as much debate or did as much to bring anthropology into the public eye as Margaret Mead.

In the mid-20th century, when anthropology was carving out its identity