Biography

Before tape recorders or video cameras, one German scholar

Aihwa Ong is a trailblazing anthropologist whose work has profoundly reshaped how we understand globalization, citizenship,

William Halse Rivers Rivers was not your typical anthropologist.

Verrier Elwin was a remarkable figure whose life journey traversed continents, cultures, and disciplines. An English-born Christian missionary turned anthropologist, Elwin immersed himself in the tribal heartlands of India, not as an outsider but as a passionate advocate for indigenous…

Few anthropologists have sparked as much intrigue-or controversy-as Marvin Harris

In the mid-20th century, anthropology stood at a crossroads-trapped between outdated

Victor Turner was the latter. A British cultural anthropologist best known