Biography

One of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century, Geertz Clifford is best known for founding interpretive anthropology

In the early decades of the 20th century, as India grappled

Few thinkers have moved as fluidly across intellectual boundaries as Gregory Bateson

Harold C. Conklin was a pioneering figure in anthropology and ethnobotany

Herbert Spencer was a towering figure in Victorian intellectual life

Irawati Karve was one of the first Indian women to emerge

John Adair was a pioneering American anthropologist whose innovative work in visual anthropology, Native American

Arjun Appadurai is one of the most influential anthropologists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, best known for his pioneering work on globalization, modernity, and cultural transformation. A theorist of the global condition, Appadurai redefined how we think…

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow, a military cantonment in present-day Madhya Pradesh,

Lee Rogers Berger is a trailblazing American-South African paleoanthropologist who has transformed our understanding of early

James George Frazer was a towering figure in the early development

Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi was a pioneering Indian anthropologist whose work transformed the understanding of tribal life