The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 93 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 21st most number of Anthropologists behind China, and New Zealand.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Indian Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arjun Appadurai (b. 1949)
With an HPI of 48.89, Arjun Appadurai is the most famous Indian Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Arjun Appadurai (born 1949) is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation-states and globalization. He is the former University of Chicago professor of anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Humanities Dean of the University of Chicago, director of the city center and globalization at Yale University, and the Education and Human Development Studies professor at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture. Some of his most important works include Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule (1981), Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy (1990), of which an expanded version is found in Modernity at Large (1996), and Fear of Small Numbers (2006). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indian anthropologists born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indian anthropologists include Arjun Appadurai.
