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Indian anthropologist, activist, and feminist historian 1966-11 Aninhalli Vasavi: Indian anthropologist 1958-12-20 Anita Álvarez de Williams: American anthropologist, photographer and historian 1931 Anita Brenner: Mexican writer 1905-08-13 1974-12-01 Ann Dunham: American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama: 1942-11-29 1995-11-07 Ann Fienup ...
She became the first woman to be recognized as a prominent leader of a learned profession. [2] She can be viewed as a transitional figure in her field for redirecting both anthropology and folklore away from the limited confines of culture-trait diffusion studies and towards theories of performance as integral to the interpretation of culture.
Originally produced as a magazine article, The Natural Superiority of Women, published in 1952, was one of the major documents of second-wave feminism and the only one written by a man. Using his background as a physical anthropologist, Montagu points to the biological advantages that the women of the human species have for long-term survival.
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE FBA (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion .
Michelle "Shelly" Zimbalist Rosaldo (1944 in New York City – 1981 in Philippines [1]) was a social, linguistic, and psychological anthropologist famous for her studies of the Ilongot people in the Philippines and for her pioneering role in women's studies and the anthropology of gender.
British women anthropologists (3 C, 105 P) C. Canadian women anthropologists (1 C, 41 P) Chilean women anthropologists (8 P) Chinese women anthropologists (2 P)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978) "Margaret Bateson" redirects here. For the British journalist and activist, see Margaret Heitland. Not to be confused with the British anthropologist Margaret Read. Margaret Mead Mead in 1948 Born (1901-12-16) December 16, 1901 Philadelphia ...
Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our understanding of the evolutionary basis of female behavior in both nonhuman and human primates". [2]