British Anthropologists

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor FRAI (2 October 1832 - 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.

Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA (1 January 1854 - 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.

William Halse Rivers Rivers (12 March 1864-4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock.

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (né Brown; 17 January 1881-24 October 1955) was an English social anthropologist who helped develop the theory of structural functionalism. He performed fieldwork in the Andaman Islands and Western Australia, which became the basis of his later books. He had academic appointments at universities in Cape Town, Sydney, Chicago, and Oxford, and sought to model the topic of anthropology after the natural sciences.

Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (21 September 1902 - 11 September 1973) was an English anthropologist.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (7 November 1910-6 January 1989) was a British social anthropologist and academic.

Sir John Rankine Goody FBA (27 July 1919 - 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist.

Rodney Needham (15 May 1923-4 December 2006 in Oxford) was an English social anthropologist.

Audrey Isabel Richards, CBE, FRAI, FBA (8 July 1899 - 29 June 1984), was a pioneering British social anthropologist.

Dame Mary Douglas (25 March 1921 - 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology.

was a South African and British social anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 - 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.

Maurice Émile Félix Bloch (born 21 October 1939) is a British anthropologist.

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the Mount Hagen people of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies.

Timothy Ingold (born 1 November 1948) is a British anthropologist, and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore, (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist and leading global thinker on prosperity.

Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born British cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg; June 28, 1905, November 26, 1999) was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.

FORTES, MEYER (1906-1983), British social anthropologist.

Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) was a British anatomist and physical anthropologist who specialized in the study of human evolution .

Sir Raymond William Firth, 1901-2002, British social anthropologist, b. Auckland, New Zealand .