ABSTRACT

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts. Fully indexed and cross-referenced, The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students of anthropology.

chapter II|12 pages

Field workers and early informants

chapter III|15 pages

The turn of the century

The diffusionist schools

chapter IV|30 pages

American anthropology

chapter VII|37 pages

British functionalist anthropology

chapter IX|52 pages

The other European schools

chapter X|15 pages

Latin America

chapter XI|26 pages

Asia

chapter XIII|29 pages

The American schools

Third and fourth generations

chapter XIV|25 pages

The British schools since 1945