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Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict and Alfred Kroeber. During World

DIV Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthrop

This biographical dictionary provides information on 322 men and women who have made or are making significant contributions in the field of anthropology. A sho

Poet, anthropologist, feminist—Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the

The latest edition of a major literature guide provides citations and informative annotations on a wide range of reference sources, including manuals, bibliogra