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.
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Máire MacNeill
20th century Irish folklorist
Birutė Galdikas
German primatologist
Aurora Lucero-White Lea
Latina U.S. suffragist and folklorist
Diane Austin-Broos
Advocate in Australian anthropology of ethno-history and a focus on change in the lives of indigenous minorities and other peripheralised peoples.
Nellie Campobello
Mexican dancer, choreographer, and researcher of indigenous dances, and the creator of the Ballet of Mexico City
Mary Lindsay Elmendorf
Nobel Peace Prize recipient of group award British and American Quakers for work during and after World War II
Elaine O’Beirne-Ranelagh
20th century Irish writer and folklorist
Dr Harriet Ngubane
South African social anthropologist best known for her work on Zulu belief systems
Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.