Anthropology

Elman Rogers Service was born on May 18, 1915, in Tecumseh, Michigan, into a modest Midwestern background.

Few thinkers have shaped the modern human sciences as deeply as Émile Durkheim. Born in 1858 in a small French town, Durkheim would

Evelyn Blackwood is a trailblazer in the fields of feminist and queer anthropology. Through decades of ethnographic research and

Lewis Binford was a transformative figure in modern archaeology, widely credited as the founder of “New Archaeology”, or processual archaeology.

Leo Frobenius was a pioneering yet polarizing figure in early 20th-century anthropology, whose deep fascination

Tim Asch didn’t just document cultures he transformed how anthropology sees and shares them. In an era when fieldwork

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,…