Florence Hawley Ellis
Florence Hawley Ellis broke new ground in archeology through use of dendrochronology, statistical analysis, chemical analysis, ethnohistory, and ethnoarcheology — often, all together.
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Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Maila Stivens
Maila Stivens is an anthropologist who has written extensively on gender, ‘family’, human rights, and latterly childhood in both Australia and Asia.
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham (1909–2006) studied the African-based dances and rituals of the Caribbean area and based many choreographic works on that research.
Ene-Margit Tiit
Ene-Margit Tiit is an Estonian mathematician who was the first president of the Estonian Statistical Society.
Pearl Primus
Dancer, choreographer and anthropologist
Maud Cuney Hare
Concert pianist, composer, teacher, lecturer, and author; director and founder of the Allied Arts Center and author of Negro Musicians and Their Music, a comprehensive survey of African-American music, as well as an arts critic and specialist in Creole music.
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Archeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes became the first woman to lead an archaeological expedition when she discovered the ancient town of Gournia on Crete. In later years she also served as a volunteer nurse during the Greco-Turkish War and World War I.
Michèle Petit
French anthropologist and researcher.
Alaíde Ventura Medina
Mexican anthropologist, writer and editor.