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Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)
politician, sociologist, ethnologist, anthropologist, professor, philosopher
- University of Bordeaux
James C. Scott (1936-2024)
anthropologist, political scientist
- Williams College, Yale University
Martin Biddle (born 1937)
anthropologist, medieval archaeologist, archaeologist
- Merchant Taylors' School, University of Cambridge
Marlene Dobkin de Rios (1939-2012)
medical anthropologist, psychotherapist, cultural anthropologist, professor
- Queens College, New York University
Ernest Borneman (1915-1995)
anthropologist, cultural studies scholar
- University of London, University of Cambridge
Georg Forster (1754-1794)
explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, pteridologist, librarian, translator, ornithologist, revolutionary, biologist, botanist, journalist, entomologist, mycologist, autobiographer, naturalist, art historian, geographer, traveler, scientific explorer
- Saint Peter's School
Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981)
anthropologist, ethnologist
- Harvard University, Phillips Academy
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
- Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science