Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

With nearly 600 signed entries from a global team of contributors, this comprehensive work is destined to be the definitive reference source for authoritative information on the historical and contemporary key figures in the field.
In addition to covering the primary centers of production in the United States and Britain, this volume also includes leading anthropologists from a wide range of regions and backgrounds. Combining valuable essays on seminal historical figures, as well as entries on the foremost scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this unique reference offers an important overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research.
Entries include: Abu-Lughod, Lila * Appadurai, Arjun * Arensberg, Conrad M. * Arizpe, Lourdes * Arutyonov, Sergiej * Babcock, Barbara * Bromley, Yurij * Bruner, Edward * Bunzel, Ruth * Catedra, Maria * Dumont, Louis * Dwyer, Kevin * Dyck, Noel * Eggan, Elkin, A.P. * Elwert, Georg * Epstein, A.L. * Eriksen, Thomas Hylland * Esterik, Penny van * Evans-Pritchard, Evans * Ginsburg, Faye * Gledhill, John * Gluckman, Max * Godelier, Maurice * Good, Byron J. * Goodale, Jane * Griaule, Marcel * Gullestad, Marianne * Gulliver, Philip H. * Gupta, Akhil * Howell, Signe * Hymes, Dell * Imanishi, Kinji * Ingold, Tim * Irimoto, Takashi * Izumi, Seiichi * Jakobson, Roman * Lurie, Nancy O. * MacAloon, John * Mach, Zdzislaw * Maine, Henry * Malinowski, Bronislaw * Martin, Emily Ahearn * Marx, Emmanuel * Mayer, Adrian * Mead, Margaret * Medicine, Bea * And many more...

Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the historical and contemporary reach of anthropological research.

Abu-Lughod, Lila; Appadurai, Arjun; Archetti, Eduardo; Ardener, Edwin; Ardener, Shirley; Arensberg, Conrad M.; Arizpe, Lourdes; Arutyonov, Sergiej; Babcock, Barbara; Balandier, G.; Barbeau, Marius; Barley, Nigel; Baroja, Julio Caro; Bartolomé, Leopoldo; Basso, Keith; Bastide, Roger; Bateson, Gregory; Bauman, Gerd; Bauman, Richard; Beattie, John; Beckett, Jeremy; Beidelman, Thomas; Beltrán, Gonzalo Aguirre; Benedict, Ruth; Berlin, Brent; Berndt, Catherine Helen; Berndt, Ronald Murray; Bestard-Camps, Joan; Bibeau, Gilles; Blacking, John; Bloch, Maurice; Blok, Anton; Boas, Franz; Bogoraz-Tan, Valdimir; Boissevain, Jeremy; Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo; Borneman, John; Bright, William; Bromley, Yurij; Bruner, Edward; Bunzel, Ruth; Butovskaya, Marina; Carrier, James; Carrithers, Michael; Catedra, Maria; Chagnon, Napoleon; Clarke, Margaret; Clifford, James; Cohen, Anthony P.; Cohn, Bernard; Colson, Elizabeth; Conklin, Harold; Coppet, Daniel de; Corin, Ellen E.; Cushing, Frank; Czaplicka, Maria; DaMatta, Robert; Darnell, Regna; Das, Veena; De Laguna, Frederica; Densmore, Frances; Descola, Philippe; Dominguez, Virginia; Donnan, Hastings; Douglas, Mary; Dozier, Edward; Driessen, Henk; Du Bois, Cora; Duerr, Hans-Peter; Dumont, Louis; Dwyer, Kevin; Dyck, Noel; Eggan, Fred; Elkin, A.P.; Elwert, Georg; Epstein, A.L.; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland; Esterik, Penny van; Evans-Pritchard, Evans; Fabian, Johannes; Feit, Harvey; Ferguson, James; Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock; Firth, Raymond; Fishman, Joshua A.; Foner, Nancy; Fortes, Meyer; Foster, George; Frazer, James G.; Friedl, Ernestine; Frobenius, Leo; Frykman, Jonas; Fukui, Katsuyoshi; Gamio, Manuel; Geertz, Clifford; Gefou-Madianou, Dimitra; Gell, Alfred; Gellner, Ernest; Gennep, Arnold van; Geschiere, Peter; Gingrich, Andre; Ginsburg, Faye; Gledhill, John; Gluckman, Max; Godelier, Maurice; Good, Byron J.; Goodale, Jane; Griaule, Marcel; Gullestad, Marianne; Gulliver, Philip H.; Gupta, Akhil; Gurevich, Aron; Hallowell, A. Irving: Hammond-Tooke, David; Handelman, Don; Handler, Richard; Hann, Chris; Hannerz, Ulf; Harries-Jones, Peter; Helm, June; Hermitte, Esther; Herskovitz, Melville J.; Herzfeld, Michael; Heusch, Luc de; Hewitt, J.N.B.; Hill, Jane; Hoebel, E.A.; Holy, Ladislav; Howell, Signe; Hymes, Dell; Imanishi, Kinji; Ingold, Tim; Irimoto, Takashi; Izumi, Seiichi; Jakobson, Roman; James, Allison; James, Wendy; Jenness, Diamond; Jensen, Adolf E.; Kaberry, Phyllis; Kapferer, Bruce; Karp, Ivan; Keesing, Roger; Khazanov, Anatoly Michailovich; Kindaichi, Kyosuke; Klein, Alan M.; Kluckhohn, Clyde; Kon, Igor Semenovich; Kopytoff, Igor; Kramer, Fritz W.; Kroeber, Alfred; Kryukov, Mikhail; Kuper, Adam; Lamphere, Louise; Layton, Robert; Leach, Edmund R.; Lee, Richard B.; Leiris, Michel; Leslie, Charles; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Lewis, Oscar; Lindenbaum, Shirley; Linton, Ralph; Little, Kenneth; Llobera, Joseph; Lock, Margaret; Löfgren, Ovar; Lomnitz, Larissa; Lotman, Jurij; Lounsbury, Floyd; Lowie, R.H.; Luhrmann, Tanya M.; Lurie, Nancy O.; MacAloon, John; Mach, Zdzislaw; Maine, Henry; Malinowski, Bronislaw; Martin, Emily Ahearn; Marx, Emmanuel; Mayer, Adrian; Mead, Margaret; Medicine, Bea; Meillassoux, Claude; Meletinskiy, Eleasar; Merlan, Francesca; Miller, Daniel; Mintz, Sydney; Miyaoka, Osahito; Mooney, James; Moore, Henrietta; Morgan, Louis Henry; Morphy, Howard; Mühlmann, Wilhelm; Myers, Fred; Nakane, Chie; Narayan, Kirin; Obayashi, Taryo; Obrebski, Jozef; Ohtsuka, Ryutaro; Oka, Masao; Okely, Judith; Oliveira, Roberto Cardoso de; Oliver, Douglas; Olwig, Karen Fog; Opitz, Michael; Opler, Morris; Palerm, Angel; Palmeira, Moacir; Parry, Jonathan; Parsons, Elsie Clews; Peacock, James L.; Pels, Peter; Peña, Guillermo de la; Powdermaker, Hortense; Powell, John Wesley; Rabinow, Paul; Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.; Radin, Paul; Rappaport, Roy; Rapport, Nigel; Redfield, Robert; Ribeiro, Darcy; Rodman, Margaret; Rottenburg, Richard; Sahlins, Marshall; Salisbury, Richard F.; Sansom, Basil; Sapir, Edward; Scheper-Hughes, Nancy