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This list of scholars of ethnology contains people who contributed in some form to the discipline of ethnology, the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them.


Name Birth Death Nationality
Joan Amades July 23, 1890 January 17, 1959 Spain
Léon Ashkenazi June 21, 1922 October 21, 1996 Israel
Ba, Amadou HampâtéAmadou Hampâté Bâ 1901 May 15, 1991 Mali
Johann Jakob Bachofen December 22, 1815 November 25, 1887 Germany
Georges Balandier December 21, 1920 October 5, 2016 France
Heinrich Barth February 16, 1821 November 25, 1865 Germany
Adolf Bastian June 26, 1826 February 2, 1905 Germany
Roger Bastide April 1, 1898 April 10, 1974 France
Gregory Bateson May 9, 1904 July 4, 1980 United Kingdom
Ruth Benedict June 5, 1887 September 17, 1948 United States
Zuzana Beňušková October 27, 1960 Slovakia
Gösta Berg July 31, 1903 March 12, 1993 Sweden
Franz Boas July 9, 1858 December 21, 1942 Germany /United States
Napoleon Chagnon August 27, 1938 United States
Charlotte Gower Chapman 1902 1982 United States
Pierre Clastres May 17, 1934 July 29, 1977 France
Heinrich Cunow April 11, 1862 August 20, 1936 Germany
Wade Davis December 14, 1953 Canada
Samuel de Champlain August 13, 1574 December 25, 1635 France
Jared Diamond September 10, 1937 United States
Germaine Dieterlen May 15, 1903 November 13, 1999 France
Mary Douglas March 25, 1921 May 16, 2007 United Kingdom
Cora Du Bois October 26, 1903 April 7, 1991 United States
Louis Dumont 1911 November 19, 1998 France
Mircea Eliade March 9, 1907 April 22, 1986 Romania
Moisés Espírito Santo Bagagem 1934 Portugal
Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard September 21, 1902 September 11, 1973 United Kingdom
Safi Faye November 22, 1943 Senegal
Raymond Firth March 25, 1901 February 22, 2002 United Kingdom
Robert J. Flaherty February 16, 1884 July 23, 1951 United States
Johann Georg Adam Forster November 27, 1754 January 10, 1794 Germany
Meyer Fortes April 25, 1906 January 27, 1983 South Africa
Reo Fortune March 27, 1903 November 25, 1979 New Zealand
James George Frazer January 1, 1854 May 7, 1941 Scotland/United Kingdom
Leo Frobenius June 29, 1873 August 9, 1938 Germany
Arnold van Gennep April 23, 1873 May 7, 1957 France
Clifford Geertz August 23, 1926 October 30, 2006 United States
Hallgerður Gísladóttir September 28, 1952 February 1, 2007 Iceland
Max Gluckman January 26, 1911 April 13, 1975 South Africa /United Kingdom
Fritz Graebner March 4, 1877 July 13, 1934 Germany
Henry Gravrand 1921 July 11, 2003 France
Marcel Griaule May 16, 1898 February 23, 1956 France
Brothers Grimm January 4, 1785 (Jacob) September 20, 1863 Germany
February 24, 1786 (Wilhelm) December 16, 1859
Hans F. K. Günther February 16, 1891 September 25, 1968 Germany
Thomas Højrup 1953 Denmark
Horatio Hale May 3, 1817 December 28, 1896 United States /Canada
Melville J. Herskovits September 10, 1895 February 25, 1963 United States
Te Rangi Hīroa October 1877 December 1, 1951 New Zealand
Robert Jaulin March 7, 1928 November 21, 1996 France
Adolf Ellegard Jensen January 1, 1899 May 20, 1965 Germany
Ulrike Krasberg August 12, 1950 East Germany/Germany
Gerd Koch July 11, 1922 April 19, 2005 Germany
Alfred L. Kroeber June 11, 1876 October 5, 1960 United States
Yanagita Kunio July 31, 1875 August 8, 1962 Japan
Claude Lévi-Strauss November 28, 1908 October 30, 2009 France
Orvar Löfgren 1943 Sweden
Robert H. Lowie June 12, 1883 September 21, 1957 United States
Bronisław Malinowski April 7, 1884 May 16, 1942 United Kingdom
Marcel Mauss May 10, 1872 February 10, 1950 France
David Maybury-Lewis May 5, 1929 December 2, 2007 Pakistan
Margaret Mead December 16, 1901 November 15, 1978 United States
Alfred Metraux November 5, 1902 April 11, 1963 Switzerland
James Mooney February 10, 1861 December 22, 1921 United States

Sharlotte Neely

August 13, 1948 United States

Louis Nicolas

August 15, 1634 1682 France
Josiah Nott March 31, 1804 March 31, 1873 United States
Anna-Maja Nylén March 24, 1912 February 27, 1976 Sweden
Dositej Obradović February 17, 1739 April 7, 1811 Serbia
Karl Polanyi October 25, 1886 April 23, 1964 Austria-Hungary
Antun Radić June 11, 1868 February 10, 1919 Croatia
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown January 17, 1881 October 24, 1955 United Kingdom
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown January 17, 1881 October 24, 1955 United Kingdom
Mirko Ramovš October 5, 1935 May 19, 2023 Slovenia
Paul Rivet May 7, 1876 March 25, 1958 France
Jean Rouch May 31, 1917 February 18, 2004 France
Marshall Sahlins December 27, 1930 United States
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow December 21, 1878 March 4, 1952 Sweden
Wilhelm Schmidt February 16, 1868 February 10, 1954 Austria
Carl-Herman Tillhagen December 17, 1906 May 28, 2002 Sweden
Colin M. Turnbull November 23, 1924 July 28, 1994 United Kingdom /United States
Edward Burnett Tylor October 2, 1832 January 2, 1917 United Kingdom
Jean-Christophe Victor May 30, 1947 December 28, 2016 France
Victor Turner May 28, 1920 December 18, 1983 United Kingdom
Huang Xianfan November 13, 1899 January 18, 1982 China

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