Maria Jane Williams
Welsh harpist and folk music collector
Category Archives: Anthropology
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Mary Leakey
Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey spent much of her marriage letting her husband Louis publicly take credit for the work they did together.
Joanna Cohan Scherer
Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.
Frances Herskovits
Anthropologist Frances Herskovits and her husband collaborated on their prolific output on African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American culture.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell (l. 1868-1926) was an archaeologist, travel writer, explorer, and political administrator.
Luise Hercus
Luise Hercus was an ethnologist and linguist who was renowned for her efforts to record the ancestral languages and songs of Aboriginal Australians.
Ann Chowning
Ann Chowning was a highly regarded ethnographer particularly well known for her linguistic work, which featured extensive field work in four different Austronesian speaking societies in western Melanesia.
Máire MacNeill
20th century Irish folklorist
Birutė Galdikas
German primatologist
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist