Fifty Key Anthropologists

Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers.

Names discussed include:

Cliffor Geertz

Bronislaw Malinowski

Zora Neale Hurton

Sherry B. Ortner

Claude LTvi-Strauss

Rodney Needham

Mary Douglas

Marcel Mauss

Robert Gordon is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont, USA, and Research Associate at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Andrew P. Lyons is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Harriet D. Lyons is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, Canada.