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Herodotus Aristotle   Lucretius Tacitus   Aquinas Ibn Khaldun Montaigne Locke White  

Strabo   Polo   Hobbes Müller Fuhlrott Tindale  

Descartes Linnaeus Berlandier Thomson  

The term anthropology first occurs in 1501 Leibniz Darwin Mead  

Vico   Wilson   Oberg  

Montesquieu Marx Firth

 

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  Voltaire Morgan Wedgwood  

Buffon Mortillet Evans-Pritchard  

Rousseau Burton Steward  

Diderot Squier L. Leakey  

Kant Bateson  

Schlözer Kluckhohn  

Jefferson Stanner  

Herder Montagu  

Blumenbach Bailey  

Chassebœuf Eliade  

Saint-Simon M. E. Opler  

Gallatin Strehlow  

Barton  

W. von Humboldt Lévi-Strauss

  A. von Humboldt Leach  

Cuvier McLuhan  

Hegel Gluckman  

zu Wied-Neuwied  

J. Grimm Reichel-Dolmatoff    

W. Grimm Gumilyov  

Schoolcraft  

Comte M. Leakey  

Morton  

1500 CE 1600 CE 1700 CE 1800 CE 1900 CE 2000 CE

Maine  

The term ethnography first occurs in 1767 D ani le vsk y M . K . O pl er  

The term ethnology first occurs in 1781   Wallace  

Société des Observateurs de l'Homme established in Paris (1799-1804) Heyerdahl  

The first ethnographic museums open in St. Petersburg (1836), Leiden (1837), Copenhagen (1839) Service  

The first ethnological society founded in Paris 1839 Turner  

The American Ethnological Society  founded in New York City in 1842 Naroll  

The Ethnological Society of London  founded in 1843 Worth  

The Anthropological Society of London  founded in 1863 Mintz  

The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland  founded in 1871 Schneebaum  

Broca Wolf    

v on S chre nck Tur nb ul l  

Bastian  

Shchapov  

Howitt  

Gatschet  

Tylor  

Powell  

du Chaillu  

Schweinfurth  

Radlov  

Anuchin  

Maklai  

Deniker  

Frazer  

Gillen  

Freud  

Cushing  

Lévi-Bruhl  

1600 CE 1700 CE 1800 CE 1900 CE 2000 CE

American Anthropological Association  founded in 1902

Journal Anthropos founded in 1906

Linguistic Society of America founded in 1924

Saussure  

Dubois  

Durkheim  

Boas  

Simmel  

Spencer  

Mooney  

Weber  

Rivers  

Park  

Chamberlain  

Pilsudski  

Schmidt  

Hrdlicka  

Wissler  

Mauss  

van Gennep  

Weidenreich  

Frobenius  

Jung  

Kroeber  

Graebner  

Radcliffe-Brown  

Lowie  

Hocart  

Barbeau  

Malinowski  

Black  

Sapir  

Czaplicka  

Jenness  

Benedict  

Hooton  

Deloria  

Granqvist  

Bosch-Gimpera  

Hurston  

Dart  

Linton  

Herskovits  

Powdermaker  

Murdock  

Redfield  

Griaule  

Trotter  

1800 CE 1900 CE 2000 CE

Gellner  

Rappaport  

Geertz  

Harris  

Barth  

Snow  

Sahlins  

Krantz  

Fossey  

Asch  

Ahenakew  

Sandall  

Ames  

Clastres  

Godelier  

Goodall  

Myerhoff   

Ruby  

Warman  

Kuper  

R Leakey  

Galdikas  

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