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Born October 14, 1827 • Inverness • Scotland
Died June 16, 1881 (aged 53) • England
Subjects Of Study endogamy • exogamy • kinship • totemism
Maurice Freedman
British anthropologist
W. H. R. Rivers
British anthropologist
Meyer Fortes
British anthropologist
Sir James George Frazer
British anthropologist
William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith
Scottish scholar
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Richard Thurnwald
German ethnologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Alexander Goldenweiser
American anthropologist
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski
Polish-born British anthropologist
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
British anthropologist
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
British anthropologist
C.G. Seligman
British anthropologist
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist
R.H. Codrington
British anthropologist and priest
S.F. Nadel
British anthropologist
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist
Spencer, Sir Baldwin
Sir Baldwin Spencer
British anthropologist
Audrey I. Richards
British anthropologist
Walter William Skeat
British anthropologist