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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
sociologist, anthropologist, photographer, translator, researcher
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-Barthou
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 1943)
anthropologist, archaeologist, television presenter, journalist, historian
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Bologna
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
anthropologist, film director, curator
- Barnard College, Columbia University
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Vladimir Propp (1895-1970)
anthropologist, linguist, literary critic, literary historian, philologist, folklorist
- Saint Petersburg State University, Annenschule
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
- University of Oxford, University of St Andrews
Giuseppe Pitrè (1841-1916)
anthropologist, politician, physician, collector of fairy tales, historian, folklorist, ethnographer
Maurizio Bettini (born 1947)
classical philologist, anthropologist, latinist, radio personality
- University of Pisa