Write biographical essays about important anthropologists who were also people of color. This assignment is required and will make up 20% of your course grade. You will choose 2 individuals from the list below and they shall be the subjects of your essays.

1. Who is this person? This includes names, birth and death dates, birthplace, spouse, ethnicity, and any other interesting facts about them as a person.
2. What did they do? This includes which subfield of anthropology they worked in, what techniques they used, what people groups they studied, what theoretical background they used in their work, and any other interesting information about their work.
3. What was their main contribution to anthropology? This will include any information about the importance of their work to anthropology in general. You may have to read between the lines sometimes to get this information.

List of Anthropologists

Caroline Bond Day Zora Neale Hurston Allison Davis

Louis Eugene King Laurence Foster Elliot Skinner

W. Montague Cobb Katherine Dunham Ellen Irene Diggs

St. Clair Drake Arthur Huff Fauset William S. Willis, Jr.

Hubert B. Ross W.E.B. Du Bois George Clement Bond

Johnetta B. Cole James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. Vera Mae Green

John Langston Gwaltney Ira E. Harrison Delmos Jones

Niara Sudarkasa Olive Osborne Anselme Remy

Beatrice Medicine Edward Dozier Francis La FLesche

K. Tsianina Lomawaima Emory Sekaquaptewa Gladys Tantaquidgeon

Arthur C. Parker Bertha Parker Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay

Alfonso Caso Chen Tiemei

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Biographical Essays An anthropologist is a person who engages in the scientific study of an aspect of humanity concerning their behavior biology and social environment and interaction by interconnecti... View the full answer