List of scholars of ethnology

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
Brothers Grimm	February 24, 1786 (Wilhelm)	December 16, 1859	Germany
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

List of scholars of ethnology

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