| A | B |
|---|
| Louis Leakey (married to Mary Leakey, also an important anthropologist) | Kenyan archaeologist; hominid fossils; Olduvai Gorge |
| Bronislaw Malinkowski | Pioneered ethnographic fieldwork; Melanesia and Papua New Guinea; studied reciprocity |
| E. B. Tylor | Father of Anthropology; cultural evolutionist; English |
| Napoleon Chagnon | The Fierce People (Yanomamo of the Amazon) |
| Ruth Benedict | cultural relativism; egalitarian; Patterns of Culture; The Chrysanthemum & The Sword |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Structuralism; North & South American Indians; The "savage" mind is equal to the "civilized" mind. |
| Margaret Mead | Coming of Age in Samoa; Book of Common Prayer |
| Colin Turnbull | The Forest People (Pygmies of the Congo); The Mountain People (Ik of Uganda) |
| Franz Boas | Father of American Anthropology; cultural relativism; Kwakiutls of Pacific Northwest; Inuit of Baffin Island |
