UCSP

Father of American Anthropology

Proponent of Cultural Relativism and Historical Particularism

• Margaret Mead

• Bronislaw Malinowski

• Franz Boas

• Alfred Kroeber

The best-known Anthropologist of the 20th Century, the pioneer of fieldwork, and the founding figure in culture and personality studies.

• Margaret Mead

• Ruth Benedict

• Franz Boas

• Bronislaw Malinowski

He proposes culture as a universal human characteristic.

• William Henry Morgan

• Alfred Kroeber

• Bronislaw Malinowski

• Franz Boas

The proponent of the Theory of Social Evolution (Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization)

• Franz Boas

• Lewis Henry Morgan

• Bronislaw Malinowski

• Alfred Kroeber

The proponent of theory which stipulates culture as a "personality writ large"

• Margaret Mead

• William Henry Morgan

• Ruth Benedict

• Bronislaw Malinowski

The best-known Anthropologist of the 20th Century, the pioneer of fieldwork, and the founding figure in culture and personality studies.

• Margaret Mead

• Ruth Benedict

• Franz Boas

• Bronislaw Malinowski