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Raymond Firth wasn't a household name-but in the world of anthropology,

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…

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