The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on themost influential and significant figures in world anthropology from the birthof th... » 

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on themost influential and significant figures in world anthropology from the birthof the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of thefifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thoughtoutlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within theirintellectual contexts. Fully indexed and crossreferenced The RoutledgeDictionary of Anthropologists will prove indispensable for students ofanthropology. «