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Joseph Benjamin Birdsell (March 30, 1908 – March 5, 1994) was an American anthropologist known for his work on Indigenous Australians, which spanned from the 1930s through to the 1970s. He was a long-serving professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
His early inclination to anthropology started with Clyde Kluckhohn's classes at Harvard University where he completed his undergraduate studies in 1962 [3] with magna cum laude honours. [4] During these years, he spent the summer of 1959 in Arizona and began his 'passion for horses, history, and the language and lives of White Mountain Apaches '.
Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2(2):1–11 Fuentes, A. (2010) Naturecultural Encounters in Bali: Monkeys, Temples, Tourists, and Ethnoprimatology Cultural Anthropology 25(4):600–624 Fuentes, A. and Hockings, K. (2010) The ethnoprimatological approach in primatology American Journal of Primatology 72:841–847
Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [2] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3] [4] [5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [6]
Anthropological linguistics came about in the United States as a subfield of anthropology, when anthropologists were beginning to study the indigenous cultures, and the indigenous languages could no longer be ignored, and quickly morphed into the subfield of linguistics that it is known as today. [4] [5]
Ethnoecology is a field of environmental anthropology, and has derived much of its characteristics from classic as well as more modern theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution , the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization .
Robert Leonard Carneiro (June 4, 1927 – June 24, 2020) was an American anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History who is widely held to be one of the prominent sociocultural evolutionists.
Rappaport was born in New York City on 25 March 1926. [2] He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University and held a tenured position at the University of Michigan.. One of his publications, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People (1968), is an ecological account of ritual among the Tsembaga Maring of New Guinea.